This case study is about using Open Source technologies for developing an enterprise Learning Content Management System. The reader of this case study is likely to be one of the following:

• Business, IT, or Project Manager
• Software Engineer, or Web Application Architect
• System Analyst, or Information Architect

Disclaimer

This case study focuses only on the publicly available portion of Premier Learning Unit web application, including the technical information which are considered Open Source therefore protected by the GNU Public license.

This case study does not discuss the detailed technical information exclusively developed for Premier, and does not include usable high resolution images of data models and UML diagrams. The employer and client proprietary information are not in any way discussed and disclosed in this Article.

The learning model described in this case study and used for Premier Learning Unit is an Open Standard provided to public by IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. ( www.imsglobal.org ).

Premier Learning Unit web application is build using Mambo CMS , and later on using Joomla! CMS which are both open source software protected by GNU Public License , meaning that it cannot be patented or licensed by any company.