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Instructure. Instructure Holdings, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is the developer and publisher of Canvas, a web-based learning management system (LMS), and Mastery Connect, an assessment management system. Prior to its IPO in 2021, the company was owned by private-equity firm Thoma ...
A massive open online course (MOOC / muːk /) or an open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web. [1] In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums or social media discussions to ...
List of MOOC providers. The following is a list of notable massive open online course providers (MOOCs) worldwide. Name. Topics. Education level. Cost. Languages courses are available in. Provider/s. Type.
Concentric Sky is a software development company located in Eugene, Oregon. The company was founded in 2005 by Wayne Skipper, [ 1] and grew to nearly 90 employees prior its sale to Instructure in April 2022. [ 2][ 3] In 2015, Cale Bruckner was promoted to President of the company. [ 4] Skipper continued to serve as CEO until the company's sale ...
Open educational resources (OER) [1] are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify. [2][3] The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve, and redistribute under some licenses. [4]
Moodle (/ ˈmuːdəl / MOO-dəl) is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. [3][4] Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other online learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors. [5][6][7]
A license, whether providing open-source code or not, that does not stipulate the "four software freedoms", [3] are not considered "free" by the free software movement. A closed source license is one that limits only the availability of the source code. By contrast a copyleft license claims to protect the "four software freedoms" by explicitly ...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses. There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free ...