Category: Learning & Education
Chamilo LMS
Chamilo is a free e-learning platform (LMS) written in PHP, forked from Dokeos in January 2010 and maintained by the Chamilo Association, a Belgian non-profit. It has served more than 40 million users worldwide since its start, focusing on a simple, user-friendly online training experience. Chamilo runs on a standard LAMP/WAMP server and only requires […]
edX
edX is an online education platform and MOOC provider founded in May 2012 by MIT and Harvard, now a for-profit subsidiary of 2U, serving over 83 million users. In June 2013 edX released its platform as open source under the name Open edX, which continues as the community-developed codebase. The edX platform offers hosted courses, […]
Gibbon
Gibbon is a flexible, open-source school management and learning platform created by teachers, designed around the workflows of real schools. It provides a single web-based system for teachers, students, parents and administrators, covering everything from student data and planning to assessment and communication. All core features are free and remain so; the project is sustained […]
ILIAS
ILIAS (Integrated Learning, Information and Work Cooperation System) is an open-source web-based learning management system developed in PHP, first published as open source in 2000. It began at the University of Cologne and was the first open-source LMS to reach full SCORM 1.2 compliance. ILIAS supports learning content management, collaboration, communication, evaluation and assessment, and […]
Open edX
Open edX is the open-source online learning platform originally developed for the MITx project and open-sourced by edX in June 2013. Built on Python with the Django web framework, it is maintained by the Axim Collaborative, the non-profit created by Harvard and MIT. Hundreds of organizations worldwide, including edX itself, use it to run online […]
Canvas LMS
Canvas LMS is a modern, open-source learning management system developed and maintained by Instructure, written in Ruby on Rails with a TypeScript/JavaScript frontend. It is the leading LMS in US higher education, holding roughly 41% of the institutional market in 2023, and is available both as a hosted service and as freely self-hosted software. Institutions […]
Moodle
Category: Education & Science.