Eric Wolfram's Directory: Learning Management System -- an evaluation of LMS solutions, software and services:
"Learning Management System -- an evaluation of LMS solutions, software and services
LMS (Learning Management Systems) are also called, CMS (Course Management System), or a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). Research started June 23, 2005.
Software, Hosted Tools and Services
* ATutor -- Open Source Web-based. Feature list is published on front page.
* Blackboard.com --Popular learning software provider and ASP portal for education. Academic suite and commerce suite (presumably for buying classes). Learning systems, community systems, content systems. Here's an implementation of a blackboard portal which looks unused.
* Claroline -- a free GPL software package working with PHP/MySQL. A course-based educational tool which allows the teacher to create, administer and add to his/her courses through the web. (* site down on 20050623.)
* DotLRN -- opensource web based learning community management system. Features published here. Used by divisions of Harvard, MIT, Heidelberg among many others. Runs on postgres or oracle, unix and aolserver. dotlrn is supported by the OpenACS community.
* Ilias -- an opensource system from Germany.
* Moodle -- Moodle seams to be software a university buys, installs and maintains. Although, here is a Moodle service provider that will host the software for you.
* OpenCourse -- web-based online course content management system for remote learning and on-line learning.
* InteractLMS -- an Online Learning and Collaboration platform developed by the Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand. It is an open source cms, lms designed with the intention of making it easy for students and lecturers to interact online, based around constructivist and vygotskian views of teaching and learning.
* Sakaiproject -- a community source software development effort to design, build and depl"
