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 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:59:18 +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 (24.02.2010) The last two days Dr. Chuck Severance (IMS Global/University of Michigan) was at the University of Zurich to do some hacking on OLAT. Chuck helped us with the implementation of the IMS Basic LTI draft standard. Thank you so much for this Chuck!        http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e23 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (10.02.2010) E-Learning Tools under the Patronage of universities make their point(s). OLAT took the third place at the customer satisfaction study „eLearningCHECK 2010“, which obtains German-speaking eLearning Customers. De facto this means No. 1 of the Open Source LMS! Have yourself a look at the press release. (Please note, that checkpoint-elearning.de is written in german) http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e40 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (02.02.2010) OLAT is present at the LearnTec in Karlsruhe, Germany. Come around and stop by at our booth F5!        http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e47 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (25.01.2010) OLAT was presented by Sandra Arnold at this year’s IC4E Conference, which was all about E-Learning, E-Business, E-Management and E-Education. The main two topics of the presentation were an introduction to the key features of OLAT and how we set up and organized our open source community. The audience was mainly involved in research at various Asian universities and those, who are currently evaluating e-learning platforms, were interested in getting to know our open-source LMS. They were impressed to see the numbers of translations and available course elements. And Sandra didn't miss the chance to mention our brand new features. We'll keep you posted!    http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e64 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (13.01.2010) For the third time the University of Hamburg published its "Hamburger eLMagazin". The focus of this volume is on "OLAT in practice". On nearly 30 of the overall 45 pages different authors from various institutions outline how they use OLAT with their specific issues. Enjoy the online PDF. (Please note, that the "Hamburger eLMagazin" is written in german) http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e73 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (03.12.2009) Some impressions of our booth C124 and the team at this years Online Educa in Berlin.              http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e83 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (19.11.2009) OLAT was well represented at last weeks DevLearn conference and Expo. At the Expo the University of Zurich's booth, where Joël Fisler presented both OLAT and eLML, was well visited by people from higher education and from company representatives. Hardly anyone in the US had ever heard of OLAT and so most people where even more surprised when they saw the live demo and the clean and easy to use interface. We did receive a lot of comments saying that at first impression OLAT seemed easier to use and more powerful than many commercial and open source learning management systems used within the US market. Joël Fisler attended also the demofest and the conference where he was able to hold a presentation about the tools followed by a lively discussion about open source tools in education. First cooperation plans with commercial companies and with a US university have been established and we will announce them on our website as soon as the deals are fixed. After visiting three conferences and expos in the US and Canada during the last month we feel optimistic that finally OLAT will start to become recognized and used in North America. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e106 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (11.11.2009) Recently we released the new version 6.2.2 - this is another maintenance release. For a full list of bugfixes and improvements check our Bug tracking System. Continue to the download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e112 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (04.11.2009) OLAT was present at AACE's E-Learn 2009 conference in Vancouver in late October. Joël Fislers "best practice" presentation entitled "Creating, handling and implementing e-learning courses and content using the open source tools OLAT and eLML at the University of Zurich" covered both the content creation tool eLML and the open source LMS OLAT plus a short live demonstration. The conference offered up to 12 parallel session, so we are happy to have counted maybe 20 attendees at our session. A second OLAT demonstration was held two days later at a swap of ideas and open source tools between educators and IT specialists. Besides these presentation lots of informal talks and exchanging of ideas made the E-Learn 2009 in Vancouver a real success for the OLAT project. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e124 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (15.10.2009) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.2.1 today. As usual for a maintenance release it contains some bug fixes and also some improvements: QTI editor provides now a table functionality, formatting issues with TinyMC and tests, forum preview, css default theme references files that do not exist, daily updated search index. Continue to the download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e131 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (13.10.2009) Considering the fact that OLAT has been translated to both traditional and simplified Chinese, it was about high time to get in touch with interested OLAT users and translators from the area. Participating in the TELearn (Technology Enhanced Learning) conference in Taipei seemed just about the right occasion to mingle with university members interested in LMS and open source software in general. We had many opportunities to talk about the features and functionalities of our LMS during the poster session and to get into touch with people visiting our small booth. We'd like to welcome new OLAT users and invite you to share your impressions as a OLAT newbie with our community. At the same time, subscribe to our newsletter and keep yourself posted! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e139 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (06.10.2009) OLAT grows continuously and so does the number of users and developers. This results in interesting news and information we want to share with you. So, here it is: the first OLAT newsletter. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e146 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (29.09.2009) As planned, the new version 6.2.0 is released today. Some major enhancements are done and a bulk of new features have been added: calendar import/export, new IMS-Content-Packages Editor, a TinyMC Editor Upgrade (e.g. formula editor), extended export function for grouplists and many more. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e153 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (24.09.2009) On 23th September the 2nd CH Open Source Award was held during the "OpenExpo 2009" in Winterthur (Swiss). "eLML" won in the category 'Education Award'! With this price young talents are promoted, who are campaigning in a FOSS project. Check the CH Open Source Award Website for further information. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e167 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (23.09.2009) This year's "21st Century Learning Conference" took place in Hong Kong and was about "Extending Tomorrow's Leader with Digital Learning". The conference was mainly attended by teachers and IT administrators of international schools from Asia and Oceania. OLAT seized the chance to be present in this area for the very first time. Even if the scope of the conference was rather broad, there were surprisingly many participants interested in OLAT, or in open source software in general. There was a vivid discussion about "E-learning and open source tools" during the Unconference session on Friday and a 45min presentation about "What is a LMS? What is OLAT?" held by Sandra Arnold-Roth. The audience was particularly impressed about the multilingual user interface - big thanks to our active translator community! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e183 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (21.09.2009) The first OLAT User Day was held on September 11th at the University of Zurich. So far we can say: it was a success! The OLAT User Day gave the participants the opportunity to meet up others from the OLAT community. Just to come together, share ideas and to discuss matters of common interests. Main issues were the work with and on OLAT: Developers, authors and users were swapping ideas on workflows, problems, news and particularities the whole day through. The participant’s feedback was throughout positive. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e190 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (13.07.2009) As already announced in spring, the OLAT User Day will be held on September 11th, 2009, and you are kindly invited to participate. The OLAT User Day is an event where the OLAT community gathers together to exchange ideas. During the day, there will be kind of an „unconference“; in several sessions topics of common interests will be discussed. In the evening, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of OLAT. For details, registration (until August 30th!), submitting a session proposal etc. check the OLAT User Day Wiki. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e204 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e211 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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: http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e227 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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.Starting in 2009 OLAT plans to become an IMS member and implement more IMS standards. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e250 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e262 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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). http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e270 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e286 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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". http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e301 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html OLAT Home (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!!! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html#d8e309 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (13.02.2009) We have since two weeks a beta version of OLAT 6.1 - the first fully scalable OLAT version - running successfully on three nodes at the University of Zurich. A few more bug fixes and then we are ready to release it to the public. The release is planned for Tuesday, March 10th 2009. We will be in the OLAT and the facebook chat the whole morning of the release, so join in Facebook if you have questions, comments, feedback etc. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e8868 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (12.02.2009) At this year's Learntec OLAT had again its own booth conveniently situated next to the fair hall entry. And as we don't change winning teams the University of Zurich was again supported by Frentix GmbH (Christian Franck) and by the Bildungsportal Sachsen (Frank Richter). This time we put some extra effort in furnishing our booth: new posters were designed and lots of OLAT cubes made of cardboard folded. Check out the pictures to see them hanging from the booth ceiling. Many interested fair attendees paid a visit to our booth for a shorter or longer OLAT presentation. We got lots of positive feedback concerning the smooth OLAT 6 layout, the bunch of functionalities and of course the Swiss chocolate we use to offer. Furthermore, Christian Franck was interviewed for a video podcast which will hopefully be broadcasted soon. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e8872 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (11.02.2009) People all over the world are working with OLAT. We wanted to know what users think about OLAT and started a page What Users say about OLAT. If you like to contribute with a statement, send us a photo, your name and job description plus a comment about OLAT. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e8890 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (02.02.2009) We have been working on a scalable OLAT-solution since nearly two years now. Scalable means that you can install OLAT not only on one server but on many servers and thus serve a lot more concurrent users than with only one installation. This morning we released OLAT 6.1 at the University of Zurich and the new installation consisting of three OLAT server-nodes is successfully running since five hours now. We will have to monitor it during the next days and then decide when to do a public OLAT 6.1 release. Furthermore we are still waiting for some translations to be done before we can release OLAT 6.1 for our community. So it might take another three or four weeks. We'll keep you updated! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e8900 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (21.01.2009) Google announced their Google Summer of Code 2009 project and it is most probable that the University of Zurich will be a mentoring organization again. As in 2008 we will participate again with our two eLearning open source projects OLAT and eLML. Interested students from all over the world will be able to apply for a grant for one of our projects. Please have a look at our GSoC project list and start contacting us if you are interested in particpating. The starting date for submitting applications has not yet been published but it will proably be in late March 2009. More information here... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e8904 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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/website_news.html#d8e8916 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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/website_news.html#d8e8922 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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. 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/website_news.html#d8e8929 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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 bug fixes and further improvements included into this new OLAT release. For a full list of bug fixes and improvements check the release notes. Continue to download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e8954 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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 bug fixes! For a full list of bug fixes and improvements check the release notes. Continue to download section... http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e8964 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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/website_news.html#d8e8975 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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/website_news.html#d8e8991 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Tue, 04 Nov 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#d8e9004 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 (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/website_news.html#d8e9008 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (16.10.2008) 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#d8e9027 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html News-Archive (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/website_news.html#d8e9031 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 (12.09.2008) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.0.4 today. The release 6.0.4 contains as usual many bug fixes. 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#d8e9041 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 bug fixes 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#d8e9047 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#d8e9056 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 bug fixes. 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#d8e9071 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.geomatikk.pl/olat! Thanks to Bartek and his GEOMATIKK-team! http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e9106 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#d8e9113 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#d8e9120 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#d8e9131 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#d8e9140 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#d8e9150 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#d8e9160 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#d8e9167 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#d8e9184 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#d8e9194 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 bug fix 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 bug fix 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#d8e9215 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#d8e9219 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 bug fix release for OLAT 5.2. http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_news.html#d8e9226 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#d8e9230 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#d8e9240 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#d8e9250 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#d8e9274 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#d8e9291 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#d8e9304 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#d8e9311 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#d8e9320 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#d8e9336 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#d8e9343 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#d8e9358 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#d8e9363 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#d8e9376 joel.fisler@id.uzh.ch (Joël Fisler) Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT