Moodle - Moodle Moodle is an Open Source e-learning platform. It has a relatively large userbase. Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it and even distribute it (under the terms of the GNU General Public License). Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and any other system that supports PHP, including most webhost providers. Data is stored in a single database: MySQL and PostgreSQL are best supported, but it can also be used with Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC.
E-learning - help teachers organize their pedagogical perspective. Some institutes for Higher education are devoted to this mission (training, counselling, funding, developpment, etc.). One example (IPM) may be found in Belgium: http://www.ipm.ucl.ac.be (website in French). The general philosophy (in English) for promoting E-learning and other technological tools may be found in http://www.ipm.ucl.ac.be/Marcel/TDM_english.html Claroline (see below) was developed by IPM (namely, Institute for Pedagogy and Multimedias). More recent approaches focus on dialogue, interaction and collaborative activities - courses still contain content but it is of secondary importance or is generated by the students. An open source course management system that makes this approach easier is Moodle (see below). This advocates Social-Constructivism as a pedagogical perspective, whereby learners construct their knowledge through discussion, thereby enhancing their thinking skills. Organizing the content For whom do we.
Learning Support Systems - See Also Content Management Framework List of open-source software packages E-learning.
List of open-source software packages - myPHPNuke PHP-Nuke phpWebSite Postnuke Scoop Slashcode Xaraya Plone Learning Support Whiteboard http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/ ILAIS http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/index-e.html Moodle http://moodle.org/ Programming language support Eclipse IDE - an extensible integrated development environment GCC - a set of compilers for multiple programming languages and platforms, including C C++ Ada Java Pascal Fortran Perl - a programming language strong on text processing PHP - a scripting language designed for web site applications Python - A programming language CLISP - a Common Lisp interpreter and bytecode-compiler Graphics Crystal Space - graphics engine The GIMP - a graphics program Simple DirectMedia Layer - a platform independent graphics library, primarily intended for game development Maths GAP - computational discrete algebra package. LaTeX - mathematical typesetting system. MAXIMA - a computer algebra system, based on the original MACSYMA NTL - number theory.
