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Open edX is a learning platform for creating and delivering structured online courses. Its Studio authoring tools and learner-facing LMS support rich course content and assessments for organizations prepared to operate a substantial self-hosted educational service.
Canvas LMS is a learning management system for delivering courses, collecting assignments, and maintaining grades. Its open-source code can be self-hosted, giving institutions a platform to adapt while distinguishing that deployment from Instructure's separately managed commercial services.
Chamilo is a learning management system focused on course delivery and accessible administration. Its open-source platform combines learning paths, assessments, and learner tracking for schools or training organizations that want to run a course site themselves.
ILIAS is an open-source learning management system for creating, organizing, and delivering educational content. It provides courses, tests, and collaboration functions for institutions that need a configurable learning repository and control over their own deployment.
Sakai is an open-source learning platform built for teaching, course collaboration, and assessment. It brings resources, assignments, discussions, and grading into course sites, with institutions able to operate their own installation or arrange commercial hosting separately.
OpenOlat is a web-based learning management system for building courses, administering learners, and assessing progress. Its open-source platform supports structured educational workflows, while the developer also offers separate hosting, support, and service arrangements for organizations.
Kolibri delivers educational content through a learning platform designed for offline use. It lets schools or community programs distribute curated resources over local devices and networks, with learner activities and progress tools that reduce dependence on continuous internet access.
Oppia is an interactive learning platform that guides learners through explanations and questions rather than static pages alone. Its open-source software supports creating and delivering exploratory lessons, while content and deployment choices determine the resulting learning experience.
Anki is a flashcard application that schedules reviews using spaced repetition. Users create or import decks with text and media, making it useful for long-term study when information can be broken into clear prompts and recallable answers.
Stellarium is a desktop planetarium that renders the sky for a chosen location and time. It helps learners and observers identify stars, constellations, planets, and other objects while exploring how the visible sky changes over time.
GCompris is an educational activity suite for children, covering topics such as computer interaction, numbers, reading, and basic science. Its free-software desktop and supported mobile builds provide many short activities that can be explored with adult guidance.
SageMath combines open-source mathematical tools into a common environment for symbolic algebra, numerical computation, and advanced mathematics. It supports interactive work and scripting, helping students and researchers explore problems across algebra, number theory, calculus, and related fields.
GNU Octave is a numerical computing environment with a language suited to matrix operations and scientific calculations. It offers interactive and scripted work, plotting, and packages for specialized tasks, with substantial compatibility with many MATLAB-style programs.
Scilab is a numerical computing application for engineering and scientific analysis, with a programming language, plotting, and mathematical functions. Its Xcos environment adds graphical modeling of dynamic systems, supporting both scripted calculations and block-diagram exploration.
Maxima is a computer algebra system for symbolic expressions, equations, differentiation, integration, and related mathematical work. It supports exact manipulation alongside numerical evaluation, making it useful for exploring formulas and checking intermediate steps in mathematical analysis.
JabRef manages bibliographic references using BibTeX and BibLaTeX files. It helps researchers organize entries, attach documents, search reference information, and maintain citation metadata for writing workflows that benefit from transparent, portable bibliography files.
BibDesk is a macOS bibliography manager built around BibTeX reference files. It supports editing bibliographic records, organizing linked documents, and searching a reference collection, making it useful for researchers working with LaTeX and local publication libraries.
VOSviewer constructs and visualizes bibliometric networks from publication and related data. It helps researchers examine citation, co-authorship, and term relationships, producing interactive maps that can reveal patterns while requiring careful interpretation of the source collection.
