[Using Sakai] CLE vs OAE

[Charles Severance]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Hasan Gharehasanloo wrote:

> A I understood CLE is for institutes and OAE is for academies.
> 
> - Can anyone explain in simple words what is differences between CLE & OAE?

The CLE is the Sakai Learning Management System that competes in the marketplace with Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Canvas, and  Moodle.   The Sakai CLE is installed at about 300 schools / companies around the world and serves about 3 million students and faculty every day.

If you are looking for an open source LMS to run in production at your organization - CLE is what you are looking for.  As Mark said, it is mature at version 2.9.1 and represents over 10 years of active open source development.

OAE is a ground-up development project started in 2008 that was initially was intended to be a "replacement" for CLE.  But now nearly five years later the OAE is still far from having feature parity with the CLE.   At the same time, the OAE has interesting features that the CLE does not have that many schools find attractive.  The OAE is a much-less mature product and I don't think that any school has the OAE running as their enterprise learning system.   OAE is still emerging and so it might be something you want to get involved in if you want to build something new and interesting.

One problem that might be confusing to you is that during 2009-2011, there was a lot of presentations, web pages, and discussions that strongly described the OAE as "coming soon" and the "next big thing".   So when you see materials or read blog posts talking about OAE, make sure to check on the date.  Pretty much anything prior to 2012 that talks about what will be delivered in OAE and when it will be delivered is likely overstated and is likely no longer relevant.  The look and feel and core feature set of the current OAE is still pretty consistent with earlier versions - but the participating institutions for OAE, their financial commitment levels, and roadmap for OAE adoption and production deployment is quite different than it was described in 2009-2010.

> - Do they have separate source code?

Yes - As Mark Norton said in his response.

/Chuck

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