What's out there for Open Source e-Learning?
So what is on offer today?  The following Open Source software applications are making good inroads into the Australian Market:

Moodle
Moodle is a Web-based e-learning project that describes itself as a course management system to help educators create "effective online learning communities". Moodle can accommodate 200,000 users, and can be used as a general Web content system, so it's not tied down to just e-learning.

Moodle's footprint is already quite large with some 38,000 sites from 198 countries having registered their installation.

Claroline
Claroline is an e-learning and "e-working" platform allowing users to build online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the Web. Claroline was started by the University of Louvain in Belgium and since 2004 the research centre of ECAM has also been collaborating on its development. It is now available in 35 languages.

Dokeos
Dokeos provides learning management, Oogie Rapid Learning for building online courses from existing systems like Microsoft PowerPoint, reporting that can be exported to Excel or an enterprise business intelligence suite, and videoconferencing for virtual meetings and classrooms or training sessions.

Dokeos has a number of customers in the corporate enterprise and government space, and is growing a community of developers writing third-party extensions.

DimDim
DimDim is a very simple to use browser-based web conferencing service. You can show presentations, collaborate via whiteboards, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required to host, attend or even record meetings.