OpenAcademic brings together Moodle, Drupal, MediaWiki and Elgg

OpenAcademic is combining Moodle with Drupal, Elgg, and MediaWiki into a suite of web 2.0 learning apps for education.

In case you're unfamiliar with any of those, here's what each component does:

• Moodle is a learning management system. It's designed to support learning by providing educational material and interaction between student and teachers. Everything is organized to support the learning objectives selected by the teacher.
  
• Drupal is a content management system. Less specialized than Moodle, it's used for building just about any kind of web site. It supports forums and some community features, but the emphasis is firmly on the content.
• Elgg I'm calling a social network management system. It creates the sort of web sites that work by bringing users together and letting them share things, rather than by giving visitors access to pre-prepared content. Elgg is specialized for letting groups form with shared learning objectives and interests, and perhaps working together on group projects. Elgg can create networks within a particular site (a single school), or connect sites together, or create public groups on the internet.
  
• MediaWiki is the powerful wiki software behind Wikipedia, and most of the other big wikis out there. A wiki lets users collaborate to produce an ever-improving massive web site. In a wiki, each individual's identity is pretty unimportant. The finished site usually results from many people making small changes, almost anonymously.

Using OpenAcademic you could have virtual classes running in Moodle and the school web site running on Drupal (with individual teachers or even students looking after certain pages and sections). Elgg could enable students to collaborate on projects of special interest to them, with like-minded students from schools all over the world. And a school wiki could... well, is there anything a wiki can't do? ;)

More info on OpenAcademic
Drupal and Moodle together? Really? Really. answers just why you'd want to link these tools together, and not just choose one or the other.
About us gives a fuller description of the suite and what it's for.

Visit these products' homepages:
Moodle (and check out the Packt book)
Drupal (and check out the Packt book)
Elgg (or see this Elgg site about Elgg, which will give you a great idea of what it's all about)
MediaWiki