OLAT - Online Learning And Training

Recently we have come across yet another open source Learning Management System OLAT short form of Online Learning And Training. OLAT mostly written in Java which supports around 700 users simultaneously on a standard Linux server.

It has simple yet powerful front end, users will find it easy to navigate through the system. OLAT is multilingual and supports more than 15 languages. OLAT supports e-learning standards such as SCORM, IMS CP and QTI etc.

Following are few features of OLAT

Users & Groups

Unlimited number of accounts

Different roles

Various authentication methods

Administrators can add, modify or delete users

Personalized authoring and learning environment

Manage your files via HTTP or WebDAV

Calendar (per course, per group and combined personal calendar)

Instant Messenger: See who is online and chat with others using either the integrated chat client (AJAX based) or an external Jabber client

Authentication Options

Users can create their own accounts (with/without approval by administrators)

Direct login into OLAT with OLAT user name and password

Access file system via WebDAV login

Course Management

Flexible course system

Based on IMS learning design concepts

Create a personalized course structure according to your needs

Course editor: create your course using OLAT course elements

Group management: manage your learners

Rights management: grant specific users access to course tools

Assessment tool: assess your learners

Course Elements OLAT Offers

Wiki

Single pages with integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor

Include external pages or sites via tunneling

Both SCORM and IMS Content Packages

Tasks with drop box, sample solution and scores

Tests (with scores) and self-tests (anonymous, no scores) based on QTI standard

Questionnaire for course evaluations

e-learning and cource management systems

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Moodle is open source web application that you can use to create interactive web sites where teachers and students can communicate and collaborate in educational ways. It needs to be installed on a web server somewhere (which could be one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company).

The focus of the Moodle project is always on giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning , but there are many ways to use Moodle:

* Moodle has features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
* Many institutions use Moodle as their platform to conduct fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face courses (known as blended learning).
* Many of Moodle users love to use the many activity modules (such as Forums, Wikis, Databases and so on) to build richly collaborative communities of learning around their subject matter (in the social constructionist tradition), while others prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver content to students (such as standard SCORM packages) and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.

Check out the online demo of Moodle here or download and start using.