15 Open Source Education Related Software

The open source community has been good to the education industry. There have been a lot of useful software that have been developed for educational purposes. Some are meant for school management, while others manage more specific purposes.

1. Moodle

Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.

2. Rogo

This is a customisable educational and entertainment platform that aims to create a microcontroller-powered rover that can communicate with an Android application using Bluetooth technology.

3. iTALC

iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows XP, Vista and 7 and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

4. Matterhorn

This is an open source tool for lecture capture and video management for education.

5. OpenMeetings

OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your server with no limitations in usage or users.

6. Fedena

Fedena is a multipurpose school management software which is used by thousands of educational institutions worldwide for all administration, management and learning related activities.

7. BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.

8. Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

9. ClaSS

ClaSS is a software for schools that integrates all the aspects of school management, making it a powerful solution to use.

10. SchoolTool

SchoolTool is an open source, web based student information system designed for schools in the developing world, with strong support for translation, localization and automated deployment and updates via the Ubuntu Linux installer and package management system.

11. VuFind

VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries.

12. ATutor

ATutor is a free Open Source learning management system (LMS), used to develop online courses and create eleaning content.

13. Epoptes

Epoptes is an open source computer lab management and monitoring tool. It allows for screen broadcasting and monitoring, remote command execution, message sending, imposing restrictions like screen locking or sound muting the clients and more.

14. Open-Sankore

This is a free, open-source interactive digital teaching software.

15. Sakai CLE

A full-featured system supporting technology-enabled teaching, learning, research and collaboration for education.