Primary/secondary education

Open source software provides new opportunities for the education sector. In fact, many of the most popular open source tools such as Moodle , were developed in the education sector originally.

Research by BESA, the British Educational Suppliers Association) has revealed that in the UK Moodle is the leading virtual learning environment (VLE) of choice in secondary schools and a significant player in primaries.

Higher education

Open source software is already used extensively in higher education and many open source software projects were actually started by higher education institutions. The most popular open source project in higher education is Moodle, a virtual learning environment (VLE).
The most high profile adoption of Moodle in the UK is the Open University. The Open University Moodle contains over 400,000 users and 3,000 courses.

There has been a rapid adoption of Moodle by Universities and in 2007 it became the second most used VLE in universities worldwide. There are alternative open source VLEs you can consider including ATutor and Dokeos .

Research by BESA, the British Educational Suppliers Association) has revealed that in the UK Moodle is the most used VLE in Further Education colleges with over 50% of all FE colleges now using Moodle.

Moodle 

Moodle enables teachers to:

• develop online curricula and lesson plans
• create and upload learning resources
• administer assignments and quizzes
• create collaborative learning areas and activities.

Moodle now has more than 14 million users, with more than 35,000 sites in 195 countries.

You may want:

• to retain responsibility for the operation of your systems
• have an IT team to monitor and maintain the systems
• implement open source on your own infrastructure
• the freedom to customise and extend the system
• keep data behind the firewall for security reasons.

Kineo Open Source

Kineo Open Source can provide:

• customisation using bespoke or open source extensions
• rebranding and theme development
• administrator training
• administrator support.

You may also want a rapid deployment where Kineo Open Source hosts the systems for you and benefit from:

• rapid deployment
• a customisable implementation, not an inflexible one-size-fits-all system
• full technical support and backup
• starting small and upgrading later with ease
• responsive support services.

Sounds right for you? Contact us to find out more.