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title: "Exelearning"
description: "eXeLearning is the rare open-source authoring tool with an institution behind it. Started in New Zealand, maintained since 2010 by Spain's education ministry through Cedec-INTEF and now developed jointly with the regional administrations, it exists to produce open educational resources and it exports to the formats schools actually use: HTML5, EPUB3, IMS Content Packaging, and SCORM 1.2 and 2004."
canonical_url: "https://scorm-tools.com/tools/exelearning"
last_updated: "2026-10-31T10:22:02.375Z"
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eXeLearning is the rare open-source authoring tool with an institution behind it. Started in New Zealand, maintained since 2010 by Spain's education ministry through Cedec-INTEF and now developed jointly with the regional administrations, it exists to produce open educational resources and it exports to the formats schools actually use: HTML5, EPUB3, IMS Content Packaging, and SCORM 1.2 and 2004.

The current codebase is a rewrite, not the Python desktop application people may remember. It is a web application built on Bun and Elysia with real-time collaborative editing through Yjs, database support for MySQL, Postgres and SQLite, and CAS and OpenID Connect authentication. That makes it deployable as shared institutional infrastructure rather than something each author installs — which is clearly the point.

Who it suits: schools, universities and public bodies producing structured, accessible content who need SCORM output without a per-author licence. Who it does not suit: teams wanting slick custom interactions, branching simulations or video-heavy microlearning. The iDevice model is structured and pedagogical rather than free-form, and there is no xAPI or cmi5 path at all, so anything beyond course-level completion tracking is out of scope.

Development is active and public — v4.0.3 in August 2026, commits within the day, codecov reporting — and the funding model means it is unlikely to disappear.