OLAT
Open Source Learning Management System
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| Developer(s) | University of Zurich in association with the community |
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| Stable release |
7.6 / September 17, 2012
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| Repository | hg |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform (based on Java) |
| Type | LMS (Learning Management System) |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | www.olat.org |
OLAT has many features typical for e-learning platforms:
As the strategic LMS of the University of Zürich, OLAT is continuously being developed. In the meantime, OLAT gains increasingly more attention, especially within the European higher education market. OLAT and the Sakai Project have very similar goals, but compared to the American initiative, OLAT has a much longer development phase and has been successfully in production for several years. OLAT has been developed from the beginning to support campus-wide E-learning and can be compared to commercial tools like WebCT Vista.
OLAT is a mature LMS, used to support universities with thousands of users, e.g. University of Zurich with approx. 50,000, Bildungsportal Sachsen (under the name of OPAL) with approx. 40,000, University of Hamburg with approx. 30,000 and, as of the summer semester 2011, Goethe University Frankfurt with approx. 50,000 users.
By the end of 2011 the OpenOLAT fork has been started as an alternative development line by the largest community contributor who by this initiative left the original OLAT community due to strategic differences. The common base of OLAT and OpenOLAT is the 7.1 release. From that point the two systems are heading into different directions. The first OpenOLAT release was published in February 2012 with the number 8.0.
OLAT runs without modification on Unix, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X.
The requirements for OLAT are basically:
The project was initiated in 1999 but later rebuilt using Java and released as open source in 2004.
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