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CloudCourse: An Enterprise Application in the Cloud

At Google we have experts on everything from Python to penguins. However, connecting our expert teachers to eager students around the globe can be a complicated business. To that end, we are excited to release our new internal learning platform, CloudCourse under an open source license. Built entirely on App Engine, CloudCourse allows anyone to create and track learning activities. CloudCourse also offers calendaring, waitlist management and approval features >>>

Succeeding at open-source innovation

An interview with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker, on the McKinsey Quarterly >>>

2007 Open Source Think Tank

Olliance Group and DLA Piper are pleased to announce the release of the Open Source Think Tank 2007 Executive Summary Report summarizing the 2 ½-day executive summit held in March 2007 with participation from more than 100 open source leaders from six continents around the world. The 14-page Executive Summary Report provides insights into the latest trends in commercial open source derived from more than 35 CEOs, 16 CIOs/CTOs of Global 2000 organizations, and leading attorneys and venture capitalists who participated in the conference >>>

SLoodle

SLoodle is a project to integrate the VLE platform Moodle with the 3D world of Second Life. Imagine a Moodle course that, if you wanted, could turn into a proper 3D interactive classroom with all your Moodle resources available to your students in the virtual world >>>

by The Open University

OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world >>>

Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are to:

• Create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula for all age groups in all languages
• Develop collaborative learning projects and communities around these materials

Learners and teachers are invited to join the Wikiversity community as editors of this wiki website where anyone can edit the pages. The community portal lists information about many aspects of Wikiversity >>>

connexions

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Its Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license >>>