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Certified Open EdTech Products
| Product | Open Source | Sustainable | Directed by Educators | Community of developers | Open EdTech standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Blue Button | BigBlueButton was launched as an open source project in 2007 under the LGPL 3 license and to date has received over 40k commits from the community. | BigBlueButton is sustained by a core group of commercial companies that fund and support its core development. | The focus of the project is to build the world’s most effective virtual classroom for educators. Our roadmap is based on pedagogy and the features for each release are taken directly from educators. | – Over 195 contributors world-wide and actively supports developers through interaction on our GitHub issues and bigbluebutton-dev mailing list. We provide extensive documentation to our community to help them install, develop, and integrate. | xAPI, LTI, WCAG 2.1 AA BigBlueButton integration for Moodle |
| Moodle | Moodle was first released in 2001 under the GPL license (originally v2 and now v3) | Core team of 280 supported by professional services at moodle.com | – Constant UX research – Core product advisory groups with key users – Issue tracker and forums | – 1006 contributors from 60 countries – Developer support – Over 2000 community plugins – Issue tracker and forums | RSS WCAG Matrix … |
Open EdTech Interoperability Standards
These are standards that we recommend that all Education technology should support, where appropriate.
They allow interoperability among software and people, enabling organisations to create systems that work well for both educators and students.
(These are currently drafts, the OET Association is actively discussing all these standards and many more!)
| Standard | Maintainer | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ActivityPub | W3C | Allows for content to stream |
| LTI | 1EdTech | Learning Tools Interoperability allows tools to use each other across the internet, passing user data one way and grades back. |
| Matrix | Matrix.org Foundation | Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications. |
| RSS | RSS Board | RSS allows the stream of content including text and media of all kinds. It is not a perfect standard but it is very popular and widely supported. |
| WCAG | W3C Web Accessibility Initiative | Accessibility standards enable applications and media to be used by anyone regardless of capability |
| WebRTC | For streaming video |