Shropshire Learning Platform

Fronter was founded in Norway in 1998 and is now used by two million users in 2,000 learning institutions through eight countries. In the UK we power the National College for School Leadership’s talk2learn platform and work with several schools, colleges and a number of local authorities.

The Fronter Learning Platform consists of more than 90 tools with functionality in the following areas:

• ePortfolio, personal work and social software (web 2.0)
• teaching and learning (LMS)
• content creation and publishing (LCMS)
• collaboration and knowledge management.

Fronter is a fully hosted and managed learning environment and can be integrated with school management information systems (MIS). Fronter is compliant with all established eLearning standards and can be integrated with third party systems and technologies, e.g. Microsoft Learning Gateway. Fronter is available to everybody, with twelve different languages and support for accessibility standards (WAI).

Fronter is based on open technology - Linux, Apache, MySql, Php and the source code is available to customers. This means Fronter provides professional institutions with the benefits of an open source learning platform while at the same time providing a guarantee of security, reliability and scalability, to a fixed cost of ownership.

Users and educationalists are in control of all Fronter developments and all major decisions are taken by our users, or reference groups.