OLAT

(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.

(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 ... [More] 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... [Less]

(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 ... [More] accepted. The accepted students are citizens of Switzerland, Germany and India. Read on for more information... [Less]

(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 ... [More] 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) [Less]

(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 ... [More] source projects and to recruit talented programmers. Students interested in receiving such a grant should apply until March 31st April 7th, 2008 (new deadline)! [Less]

(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) ... [More] registered mainly from Switzerland (70%), Germany (20%) and Austria (5%). Another 5% are from various countries like Poland, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine etc. [Less]

(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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

(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.

(26.11.2007) We are very happy to announce the first international OLAT conference from March 26th to 28th 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland

(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!