Keewaytinook Okimakanak (www.knet.ca) is an Aboriginal tribal council in northern Ontario (Canada) that uses Moodle to provide eLearning programs for primary, secondary and adult learners in remote First Nations communities. I’m a huge proponent of open source learning technologies, so it is nice to see Moodle being adopted by indigenous community groups. One of the limitations of
mainstream learning management systems and learning technologies is that they are limited to mainstream language groups. It’s not cost effective for the large vendors to support indigenous language groups. Moodle allows users to develop their own language packs. It seems that an Oji-Cree language pack is being developed by the the Kwayaciiwin Resource Centre (http://www.kwayaciiwin.com) in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, with support from knet.
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