http://www.olat.org This is the official RSS-Feed for the open source learning management system OLAT en © OLAT 2008 (see http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/download_license.html) info@olat.org (Webmaster) http://www.rssboard.org/rss-2-0 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:47:14 +0200 This RSS Feed and also the whole website was created using the eLesson Markup Language (eLML) - see www.elml.ch for more information. http://www.olat.org/_templates/olat/images/olat_logo2_128.png http://www.olat.org http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (23.12.2008) Consider it a Christmas gift: "OLAT team goes social networks" :-) You will find more information here. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e23 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (17.12.2008) Check out our brand new broschure (A5, 4 pages), the flyer (A6) and poster (A0) that we created for the Online Educa conference. A fresher OLAT screen design also required new print products. Then we also uploaded our new 3D logo in various sizes. Please have a look at the material section and contact us if you need the original Adobe InDesign or Illustrator files. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e29 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (09.12.2008) OLAT was again present at this years Online Educa 2008 in Berlin. Our team consisted of members of the University of Zurich (Sandra Roth, Lavinia Dumitrescu and Joël Fisler), Frentix GmbH (Christian Franck) and from the Bildungsportal Sachsen (Frank Richter). We had a lot of interested e-learning experts passing by and getting impressed when we gave them a short OLAT-demonstration. "This looks a lot cleaner than the cluttered Moodle-workspace" was something we heard quite often :-) Furthermore we had someone from the Educa-staff passing at our stand and interviewing Joël Fisler about OLAT and eLML. You can find this interview on the Online Educa Podcast page. In the last session of the conference Andreas Wittke from Oncampus and Joël Fisler (University of Zurich) were holding a presentation about "Mega Content Transformation with Open Source Educational Content Project eLML (eLesson Markup Language)". Surprisingly there were still over 30 participants attending this session, which is not bad for being the last presentation at nearly 6pm on Friday afternoon. For more pictures you can visit our new Facebook group OLAT-Users. If you missed the Online Educa you can visit us at our next event, the Learntec in Karlsruhe starting on February 3rd 2009. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e36 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (04.12.2008) We had to release OLAT release 6.0.7 today because there were some bugs in the chat and notification system we needed to fix! But there are more bugfixes and further improvements included into this new OLAT release. For a full list of bugfixes and improvements check the release notes. Continue to download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e61 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (20.11.2008) Today OLAT release 6.0.6 (including unplublished 6.0.5 release) was published. The new release contains improvements of the HTML editor, SCORM and IMS CP improvements, support for Java 1.5 and a lot of bugfixes! For a full list of bugfixes and improvements check the release notes. Continue to download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e71 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (05.11.2008) Guido Schnider and Joël Fisler participated at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. The summit took place Saturday and Sunday, 25./26. October 2008, and was held in the spirit of an unconference. It was very interesting to particpate at various spontaneously organized workshops and to talk to and meet some of the 200 mentors from over 150 open source projects that participated at this years GSoC. For pictures check out the Mentor Summit 2008 photos at Flickr and for more information about GSoC 2008 and the upcoming GSoC 2009 visit OLAT GSoC page. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e81 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (04.11.2008) We added OLAT to the open source network Ohloh.net. So please visit our OLAT@Ohloh.net page and add yourself as an OLAT user (we want to see that "I am using OLAT"-list growing fast!), leave a comment, add yourself to the development team etc. Become active and make us proud :-) Furthermore we added some Ohloh-Widgets throught our website (e.g on the download or on the development page). http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e97 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (29.09.2008) At last weeks Open Expo in Winterthur OLAT received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the category "Swissness". According to the jury members OLAT is one the biggest Swiss E-Learning projects. We are very happy to have received this open source award and that the jury recognized our nearly 10 years of hard work. The prize was a golden keyboard together with CHF 1600.-. Check the Swiss Open Source Award Website for more information or read the article published in the PCTipp or Linux Magazine. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e110 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (10.09.2008) The Google Summer of Code Closing Event took place on September 4th at the University of Zurich. All students (or their mentors) presented their project. We would like to thank everyone for the nice and successful closing event. A reminder: most presentations are in German. You can find the video of the presentations and photos of the social event that followed on the OLAT GSoC page.So what has been accomplished in GSoC 2008? OLAT 6.1.x release will contain the results of the Calendar project (Udit Sajjanhar) and also the LDAP end result (Maurus Rohrer). Also ready for publication are the two eLML projects "Template Builder" and "DocBook Converter". They will be published in late September 2008. Not yet ready for production are Blog (Thomas Bernhart), CP Editor (Sergio Trentini), Tagging (Marcel Karras), and Clipboard (Mayank Jain). They are very valuable prototypes enhancing the OLAT project and probably ready for release 6.2. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e130 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (03.11.2008) Due to various reasons the public release of OLAT 6.0.5 (currently only running at UZH) has not been published yet. Since we planned a 6.0.6 for November 18th we will cancel the public release 6.0.5 and you have to wait for 6.0.6. Sorry... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7540 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (06.10.2008) We are currently looking for a Java developer and an E-Learning specialist. Please check the "Jobs@OLAT" box on the right side for more information. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7544 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (12.09.2008) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.0.4 today. The release 6.0.4 contains as usual many bugfixes. But we also implemented some improvements: Better print support, optimized calendar portlet and some security issues were fixed. Continue to download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7548 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (28.08.2008) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.0.3 today. This release includes many bugfixes for OLAT 6.0 and the final layout (new icon set etc.) and the updated user manual in four languages. Have a look at the list of chances in the OLAT 6.0.3 release notes. Continue to download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7554 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (27.08.2008) As most of you probably know the OLAT project participated as a mentoring organization at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. GSoC will officially end on September 1st and we will have a public closing event on Thursday, September 4th 2008 from 4 to 6pm (Swiss time). All students will present their projects and talk about their experiences with GSoC and the OLAT mentors. The presentation will be held at the Irchel Campus of the University of Zurich in room Y27-H35/36Y35-F51 (new location!!!) and will be available as videostream afterwards. The GSoC Closing Event is a public event open to everyone (E-Learning staff, students interested in GSoC 2009 etc.) and will be followed by a social event - Barbecue and beer - in the Irchelpark afterwards. Please download the PDF file for more information. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7563 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (05.06.2008) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.0 today. This is a major release including new functionality as well as bugfixes. The most important new features of the 6.0 release are listed below. For a full list of changes please refer to the OLAT 6.0 release notes. Many thanks to the OLAT community that helped finding bugs, which helped make this release more stable. The community also did a great job in updating several language translations. Continue to download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7578 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (28.05.2008) Last week Bartek Gajc from Olsztyn (Poland) released a translated version of the olat.org website. You can find the OLAT website in Polish at www.olat.pl! Thanks to Bartek and his GEOMATIKK-team! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7612 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (21.05.2008) We are closing the last bugs and the next big OLAT release version 6.0 seems ready for public release. We plan to have OLAT 6 published here on Tuesday, June 3rd 2008. OLAT 6 will be based on a new layout - created with the CSS-framework YAML - and will offer some new features presented when the release is ready. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7619 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (19.05.2008) Swiss GSoC mentors and students met on May 7th for a "Bonding Drink" at the MyPlace Café in Zurich. We were around ten people, mostly students and mentors from the OLAT or eLML project. Although the meeting was published on the Google list we had only one guest from another project: Donat Agosti from the Plazi project. Thanks for joining! We plan to do a next event in summer, maybe a barbecue in our beautiful University Irchel park. Please send us a note if you are interested in participating. Everybody is welcome! Check out the pictures... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7626 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (22.04.2008) This year OLAT is participating for the first time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project and has been chosen by Google to be one of the mentoring organizations. The OLAT team is very happy to have a total of 8 student proposals accepted. The accepted students are citizens of Switzerland, Germany and India. Read on for more information... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7637 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (02.04.2008) The successful start of the first OLAT conference in Zurich consisted of five fully booked workshops. We discussed topics like usage, deployment, and extension of OLAT with the participants and tried to give a deeper insight into layout issues and content creation for OLAT. After the quite challenging workshops, we needed to relax at the bistro MyPlace. In the following two days we listened to 45 talks on various issues around OLAT like use cases, online assessments, usability, recent and future development, content creation and - at a special track - e-learning in medicine. This fascinating but exhausting "business" part was framed by social events: conference diner and party at the "Giesserei" on Thursday, and a fondue diner in a sylvan hut full of atmosphere on Friday. All the 170 conference participants mainly from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland contributed in one way or another to the great success of the OLAT conference. We, the OLAT team, would like to thank all of them. We are looking forward to reading your posts on the OLAT lists and seeing you again soon. Continue... (Streams, Podcasts, Photos) http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7647 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (18.03.2008) OLAT has been accepted at the Google Summer of Code program. The GSoC initiative offers students the possibility to work for open source projects and be paid by Google (around $5000 for a summer job). The aim of GSoC is to foster open source projects and to recruit talented programmers. Students interested in receiving such a grant should apply until March 31st April 7th, 2008 (new deadline)! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7657 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (10.03.2008) The registration for the first OLAT conference (including the DOIT session "E-Learning in Medicine") closed on Friday, 7th of March 2008. We are happy to announce that a total of 170 participants 200 participants (updated 26.3.2008) registered mainly from Switzerland (70%), Germany (20%) and Austria (5%). Another 5% are from various countries like Poland, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine etc. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7667 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (30.01.2008) Since today the final program for the first international OLAT conference is online and can be downloaded here. The conference starts on Wednesday (March 26th, 2008) with pre-conference "hands-on"-workshops on OLAT and eLML. The official conference starts on Thursday (March 27th, 2008) with two sessions: One session on OLAT use cases, online assessments and usability, the parallel session - hosted by our partner "DOIT" - on "E-Learning in Medicine". On Friday (March 28th, 2008) there will be a session for users (use cases and content creation) and a second session for developers on "Proprietary Development for OLAT". In the evenings there will be social events where you can meet peers and colleagues or talk with the OLAT team. Most presentations in both rooms will be recorded and be available after the conference via "streaming video" at our conference website. Most of the presentations will be in GERMAN. Depending on the number of English native speakers we will offer a simultaneous translation. Please let us know if you don't speak German at all! Visit our conference website to register. You should register until the end of February 2008 but - as seats are limited - we are giving them away on a first come, first served basis. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7674 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (28.01.2008) Together with Frentix and BPS GmbH the OLAT team will be at the Learntec in Karlsruhe. If you plan to attend this conference feel free to visit us at booth C31. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7691 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (26.11.2007) We are very happy to announce the first international OLAT conference from March 26th to 28th 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7701 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (22.11.2007) The latest bugfix release for OLAT 5.2. is available: 5.2.3. It contains many fixes for performance improvement under high load and instant messenger bugs. The latest release also contains a bugfix for the calendar and the change from 2007 to 2008. We therefore strongly recommend that you update your OLAT 5.2 release to 5.2.3! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7721 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (18.11.2007) Together with Florian Gnägi from Frentix GmbH the OLAT team will be at the Online Educa in Berlin. If you plan to attend this conference feel free to visit us at booth A24. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7725 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (24.09.2007) Last week we released OLAT 5.2.2 a minor bugfix release for OLAT 5.2. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7732 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (17.09.2007) Next Wednesday and Thursday (September 19./20. 2007) the OpenExpo 2007 takes place in Zurich. On both days you can listen to interesting speeches about free and open source software with a business-focus on Wednesday and a technology-focus on Thursday. Together with eLML we will have a booth/stand from 9am to 5pm with information about eLML. Come and visit us! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7737 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (15.09.2007) The eLearning project Psychopathology Taught Online (PTO) wins the public-price of MedidaPrix 2007. PTO is a University of Zurich project using the OLAT LMS. Congratulations from the OLAT-team! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7747 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (12.09.2007) OLAT 5.2 - 5.2.1 to be correct, 5.2.0 was only an internal release - has been released today which is a big step towards Web 2.0 and usability. In this release we tried to implement the results of the usability report done by the University of Berne. We also rebuilt the chat client using AJAX technology and updated the forum. Here's a short list of improvements: http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7757 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (11.09.2007) Along with the OLAT 5.2 release the OLAT team completely rebuilt the olat.org website. Now this website is based on the eLesson Markup Language (eLML) and offers a layout similar to OLAT itself. A lot of old stuff was deleted and new sections were added. For those of you who are interested in OLAT please check the about section; for those of you who would like to install and use OLAT please go to the download section; and for those of you who are Java programmers and would like to mess with the code please check the development section. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7781 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (12.06.2007) We are currently working on the next OLAT release 5.2 due in late summer 2007. The main topics planned for the next release are: http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7797 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (08.05.2007) The latest OLAT release contains some bug fixes in the HTML and test editor. Please refer to the complete notes to see a full list of changes and grab your copy from the download page. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7810 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (13.04.2007) OLAT 5.1.2 is out! It is most and for all a bug fix release to resolve problems caused by the earlier version. Please refer to the complete notes to see a full list of changes and grab your copy from the download page. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7817 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (19.03.2007)The OLAT 5.1 Public has been released today (March 14th, 2007). Please note that OLAT 5.1.0 has only been released at the University of Zurich. The OLAT 5.1 Public Release is in fact OLAT 5.1.1. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7827 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (10.03.2007) One of the major Swiss newspapers, the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (NZZ), presents OLAT in its section on "Media and Informatics" (March 9th, 2007). You can find the article "Vom E-Learning zum «Blended Learning»" online on the NZZ website. The article is available in the Press section but only in German. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7843 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (08.03.2007) OLAT has its own web application MVC GUI framework. The essence of the separated framework is submitted under the name brasato framework for the JAX Innovation Award 2007. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7850 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (07.03.2007)The OLAT 5.1 Public Release was planned for tomorrow (March 8th, 2007). Unfortunately we must announce that the release has to be deferred for at least two weeks. OLAT 5.1 was released at the University of Zurich one week ago. This server hosts more than 25'000 users and more than 1000 courses. While the system is up and running we have found some hidden bugs and would like to fix them before we go public with OLAT 5.1. We would like to apologize for the delay and comfort our open-source user with the fact that when OLAT 5.1 Public is released, it will be thoroughly tested and will work no matter what your setup is. Thanks for your patience and your interest in OLAT! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7865 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (16.02.2007) The E-Learning Center of the University of Zurich has currently presented E-Assessments in its podcast. In the last edition of the E-Learning podcast the OLAT team leader Franziska Schneider talks about "OLAT & E-Assessments". You can download and listen to this 15 min-podcast here. Furthermore the online magazine "unipublic" has just published an article on the same topic. Please visit the unipublic website for more information. Both publications are only available in German. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7869 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (14.02.2007) The OLAT-team visited the LearnTec 2007 in Karlsruhe. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e7882 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT