GeoLearning further solidified its position as the top-rated enterprise learning management system company with findings from Bersin & Associates’ LMS Customer Satisfaction Study 2007: An Industry Analysis of the Customer Experience with Learning Management Systems. This comprehensive study identified GeoLearning as the customer satisfaction leader or co-leader in 17 of 20 measures for the enterprise LMS category. An overview of GeoLearning’s results from the new study, as well as the inaugural 2005 report, can be downloaded from www.geolearning.com/results.
*ATutor 1.5.4 Released*
“ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind.”
ATutor 1.5.4 has now been released. Users are encouraged to upgrade their systems to take advantage of the many new features available in this release. Some of these features include: additional test question types, as well as QTI 2.1 test question exporting; batch management of student accounts and a new administrator enrolment manager; and a new DIV based theme (blumin), among many other things.
*Downloads*
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/downloads.php
*ATutor 1.5.4 Demo*
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/demo.php
OLAT 5.1.2 release
The OLAT team released OLAT 5.1.2. This is a bugfix release.
For a full list of changes please refer to the OLAT 5.1.2 release notes
http ://www.olat.org/public/download/releasenotes/5-1-x.html.
If you have any questions/comments, please post them to our lists at lists.olat.org.
The 5.1.2 release is available as source code release for production
environments and as demo installer release for testing purpose.
Please fetch your copy at the Download section http ://www.olat.org/public/download.html
at the olat.org website.
Thanks to the growing community that helped finding bugs that made this release more stable.
Please continue submitting any bugs you may encounter at bugs.olat.org. There you’ll also be able to browse issues and bugs as well as see the detailed development roadmap.
Blackboard Announces Patent Pledge in Support of Open Source Software and Home-Grown Course Management Systems
Blackboard Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise technology to the education community, announced today a “Patent Pledge” in support of learning institutions worldwide that use or develop open source and home-grown course management software as well as the commercial entities supporting them.
Blackboard to not sue open sources LMS’s
After months of criticism that its patent policies had the potential to squelch important education projects, Blackboard on Thursday announced a “patent pledge” under which it vowed not to assert its patent rights to sue open source projects or home-grown software used by colleges and universities.