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Create your own books free online. Allows collaboration on the web too.  Web software is open source and could be installed on our servers.

This duplicates quite a lot of the functionality of Panopto, but the student Moodle video assignment (starts @3:25) looks nice. Kaltura is fundamentally an open source streaming server.

Stanford has unveiled a free online open source platform for running MOOCs called Class2Go.

"What if teachers could fork educational materials just like software developers fork code? Imagine if educators far and wide could collaborate on curriculums beyond their school, district, or university. Imagine a revolutionized education system by way of the open source model. Well, the future is now."

Open source media platform for installing on your own server

One school district goes open source. Short report.

Wiki of open source or partly free authoring platforms.

Guerrilla Pedagogy: A Hit-and-Run Guide to Mobile, Open-Source, Aggregated Course Design

"I was surprised to find while doing some research for a client that there is no single source where one can go to compare different quality standards for e-learning. So I'm starting a list here..."

"Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video..." Have we paid for Panopto yet? ;-)

Sakai and uPortal merging?

Tool developed by UBC for peer review. Open source - php based

"'Learning Perspectives:2010' is an open-source eBook by The MASIE Center and Learning 2010."

Catalyst + Richard Wyles + Kineo = "The product, called Totara, is set to revolutionize the corporate LMS space as the first open-source learning management solution designed specifically for the corporate sector."

Software developed at Macquarie Uni elearning centre.  All open source, much related to ID managemnt but includes LAMS, RAMS and a repository.

Useful list of OSS or free authoring tools.

eStudy, a German open source LMS, features student-created activities and courses. Courses can be ordered by the number of activities using clouds. Via Prof Zinke.

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information."

Hackers at the famous MIT Media Lab have built an open-source Chrome browser extension that uses the Microsoft gesture-based controller Kinect to navigate around tabs and Web pages.

PIVOTE is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded PREVIEW project, where it was used to develop training material for Paramedic students at St George's Hospital and Kingston University. Although based on the Medbiquitous Virtual Patient standard the feeling of all involved in the project was that the system could be used for any sort of structured learning in virtual worlds. The result was that JISC have funded the creation of PIVOTE - this open source project.