OLAT - The Open Source LMS
Welcome to OLAT (Online Learning And Training), the web-based open source 
Learning Management System (LMS) based on Java and completely free of charge.
Hallo The development of OLAT started in 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where it is the strategic learning management system and deployed on the main OLAT server. The University of Zurich leads the further development and provides a team of 12 developers pushing OLAT to the next level.
NEWS:
New 'COMMUNITY' tab in OLAT website
(25.05.2009) As most of you know, we did have a core community meeting two weeks ago at the University of Zurich in which also BPS, Frentix and the University of Hamburg (UHH) participated. The result of this very successful meeting was a detailed roadmap, a more concise incubation and publication process for new features and a core community meeting page with more information about the held presentations, photos, slides etc. Since there are more and more community events (OLAT Conference, OLAT User Day, Google Summer of Code etc.) we decided to introduce a new "Community" tab within the OLAT website. The "Community" section contains both existing and new pages.
OLAT 6.1.1 public release
(20.05.2009) Our first scalable 6.1 release needed some improvements and thus our first maintenance release 6.1.1 contains about 40 fixed Jira issues. The bug fixes include:
- IMS QTI improvements
- Layout-improvements and bug fixes for IE8
- Bug fixes within the user deletion workflow
- Fixes due to problems with language codes that contain underscore (e.g. zh_tw)
- Bug fixes concerning group management, WebDAV, Wiki, CSS etc.
For a full list of bug fixes and improvements check the release notes. Continue to download section...
IMS Learning Impact 'Leadership Award' 2009 for OLAT for best open source learning platform
(18.05.2009)
At last week's IMS Learning Impact conference in Barcelona the Global Learning Consortium announced the results of the Impact Award competition. OLAT was awarded with a "Leadership Award" for "Best Open Source Learning Platform". The OLAT team is honored to have received
such a unique award. A quote from the press release of IMS: "The LIA awards are unique in that they recognize the use of technology in context. Nominations include not only information
about the technology but how it is used by an education provider. In addition, the entries are evaluated according to eight
criteria of impact, including improving access to learning, improving affordability of learning, and improving the quality
of learning." (IMS 2009)
Starting in 2009 OLAT plans to become an IMS member and implement more IMS standards.
Core Developer Meeting in Zurich
(30.04.2009) Next week the OLAT core developers from the University of Zurich, Frentix GmbH, Bildungsportal Sachsen (BPS) and the University of Hamburg will meet for three days in Zurich to discuss issues about OLAT development, eAssessment, scalability, testing infrastructure and the OLAT roadmap. Besides that we will also integrate new features from our German partners into the main OLAT core during our "hackfest". We'll post the results of the three-day workshop on the OLAT website. If you're interested about the detailed schedule, download our PDF-information file or contact Patrick Brunner, the head of our development team. Both the document and the workshop are held in German but the results will be published in English.
OLAT is IMS Learning Impact Award 2009 finalist
(22.04.2009) OLAT was chosen as a finalist for the IMS Learning Impact Award 2009. On Monday, May 11th 2009 at 5pm Joël Fisler will present OLAT at the IMS Learning Impact conference in Barcelona. The conference lasts from May 11th to 14th, contact us if you plan to participate and would like to meet OLAT staff members. We did submit a short OLAT introduction video for the jury (also available on YouTube).
OLAT 6.1 release available!
(15.03.2009) With some days of delay we are proud to announce our latest OLAT release (OLAT 6.1). Certainly the most important new feature is: clustering! For about two years we have been working on a scalable solution for our LMS and are happy to release with 6.1 the first scalable version of OLAT. Consisting of three independent nodes the main OLAT server at the University of Zurich has been running stable for over a month now.
A second important new feature is internationalization: OLAT offers a new translation tool as well as an easier administration interface to install new languages. For a full list of bug fixes and improvements check the release notes and the updated OLAT manuals. Continue to download section...
10th OLAT Birthday: OLAT User Day 2009 on September 11th
(11.03.2009) On the 11th September 2009 we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of OLAT, and would like to invite you, as a user and member of our community, to join us. You will have the opportunity to meet up with like-minded people, to discuss matters of common interests, swap ideas, and – of course – to celebrate with us. So don‘t miss the OLAT User Day 2009, and make the entry in your diary today! More details will follow. Hope to see you in Zurich! Feel free to download the postcard if you didn't get one by "Snail Mail".
OLAT User Day 2009 Postcard (front)University of Hamburg switches from Blackboard to OLAT!
(17.02.2009) Yesterday the University of Hamburg announced that they will switch from Blackboard to OLAT. Their blackboard license ends in April 2010 but they will already offer an OLAT server for the next summer semester 2009. Thanks to the scalability release 6.1 OLAT fits Hamburg's needs for a high number of concurrent users. For more information read the press release or visit the University of Hamburg eLearning website. Welcome on board!!!
Check our older OLAT news in the news archive.
