6 Results for Moodle

Open Source Course Management Systems Get a Shot at Tenure

Open source software encourages learning, the exchange of knowledge and information, and project improvements that rely as much on its users, and its developers' colleagues, as it does the developer. It's not unlike education. Ideally, learning is a continuous cycle of taking in, processing, and giving back, with modifications.

It's puzzling, then, that the adoption of open source software has been relatively slow, even in higher education. However, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, open source course management software is starting to gain a foothold.



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Winners of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards Announced

Google and O'Reilly have announced the winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards. Hat tip to Matt Asay for calling this out. I was very pleased to see one of the people behind Moodle named one of the winners. We've written widely about it. These awards, by the way, recognize special people in the open source community, not just projects. Here, below the fold, are the winners.


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Moodle Open Source E-Learning Heads for the Cloud

We've covered Moodle before. It's one of the biggest players in software and platforms for e-learning (online seminars, webinars and the like) and it's also free and open source. Now, Infinity Learning Solutions has announced a cloud computing solution for Moodle leveraging the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The move may let interested parties--such as the many universities that use Moodle--deliver high-end e-learning content, such as streaming video classes. They're also likely to be able to deliver such content without facing high costs.


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From Videocasts to Podcasts: 15 Free Tools for Building Broadcasts

The web is exploding with new media, and more and more people are interested in open source tools for delivering and consuming webcasts, videocasts, webinars, streaming audio, podcasts and more. The good news is that the open source community has responded with all the tools you need to create and consume video- and audio-based rich media at no cost to you. In the world of commercial software applications, the proprietary equivalents can cost you thousands of dollars. Here are 15 great, free, open source tools that can make you a broadcaster.



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Moodle: OSS Online Learning Platform Brings Biz Opportunities

Having had much involvement myself with delivering e-seminars online, I've come to closely track the fast-growing world of online learning (e-learning). It's becoming a huge business, with big publishing companies such as CNet offering free online courses, and top universities such as U.C. Berkeley offering free webcasts and podcasts to the public. The United States is the single largest e-learning market worldwide with revenues exceeding $17.5 billion in 2007, according to a report from Global Industry Analysts. Did you know that one of the biggest players in software and platforms for e-learning is a free, open source offering? If not, meet Moodle.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Sun's Chief Open Source Officer disputes Novell's CEO's claim that the Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems are going nowhere.....

What's the secret of success for open source projects?.....

Sun has pushed a nearly final version of MySQL, but the production version is due in June.....

Popular open source anti-virus scanner ClamAV has a vulnerability to hacking, a security company has said.....


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