Why is Open Source appropriate for eLearning?

• Standards Based
• Strong User + Developer Community
• Flexible
• Manage Costs
• Growth does not require additional licensing costs.
• Easier to adapt to new or changing needs

Community Plumbing

• Learning happens only in the context of others - Community.
• Peer review
• Trust
• Accountability
• Drupal has grown from the needs of Online Communities
• Commodity features = "Why reinvent the wheel?"
• User Login
• Track User Info
• Forums
• Blogs
• eCommerce
• Flexible
• Clean Modular Code
• Lots of Developers
• Wide scope of functionality
• Scalable
• Database back ends
• Currently MySQL & PostgreSQL
• Oracle in the works
• Page caching