From pilot to production, OLi is your partner in achieving open source success!

Optimized Learning can help your institution experience the freedom and creativity of the academic open source movement. We assist you in every aspect of implementing an open source e-learning environment. Our customers value our open source expertise, our software and technical support, our training services, and our hosting abilities. Open source technology is changing the face of higher education. OLi can help your institution join the growing open source community. What do you have to lose, except your annual software bill?

What is open source, anyway?

The open source academic movement is being led by academics and programmers at major universities across the country. Open source consortiums have created online tools like Sakai and uPortal for schools who want a lower-cost alternative to traditional online course management systems (CMS). Open source is appealing because the traditional CMS packages are difficult to customize, expensive, and don’t always meet the needs of schools using them. Open source software is free, and the end-user has the freedom to fully customize the software to suit the needs of the institution. Open source software is constantly being refined and tested by the community of its users. The flexibility of the open source environment fosters creative collaboration, making this movement ideal for use in the higher learning sphere. Schools are using open source solutions to administer an e-learning environment for students, to manage information, to create portals that cultivate virtual community, and to facilitate research collaboration among professors at various universities. The possibilities provided by the open source movement are limited only by the imagination!