History
eXeLearning was originally developed in New Zealand, in 2007, and was led by two universities (University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology) and the Tairawhiti Polytechnic Institute. The project was originally supported by the New Zealand government. Development is now supported by government agencies and companies in Spain and other countries.
The original project remained active until 2010. At that time eXeLearning had thousands of users and it was very well known.
In 2009-2010, the Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas del Ministerio de Educación del Gobierno de España (now INTEF) decided to restart and to evolve the project. The new eXeLearning, as it was named, would keep alive the original open source spirit of the project, adapting the application to new web developments and standards and introducing major improvements.
In 2013 eXeLearning evolved as a web application written in Python + Ext JS that can be used with the default or preferred browser of the user, capable for use in different browsers.
Beginning with version 2.0, innovations included:
- Improvements in accessibility and presentation of contents.
- Replacement of the internal format used in eXe: the original version used a closed binary format and it has been changed to an open XML format.
- New option to export in XLIFF format to facilitate the translation of contents.
- Development of a command line version (exe_do) to facilitate the publishing and maintenance of contents through scripts.
- The Ability to generate editable SCORM packages with the tool itself.
A new eXeLearning website was also developed, which allows users to actively participate in the project by making contributions and suggestions, and to find answers to different questions.
The project is ongoing, with version 2.8.1 released in June 2023. The project roadmap includes plans for an online version of the application, rewriting in Python 3, and a new UI.
