The idea for phpEdu was born a couple of years ago when I was developing a CMS for phpBB and thought of online teaching (As of December 2008, the World of English website is still running this CMS). Then I had to build a website for a school teaching English as Foreign Language in Poland. Then I came across Claroline and graduallly the CMS idea grew into phpEdu. A Sourceforge account was created and beta versions were released before picking up interest in Drupal.
Seeing the direction in which Drupal was heading with its clean, powerful and modular nature as well as the vibrant community behind it, I felt the project will fare much better on this foundation. So, porting the application to Drupal modules began around mid-2006. After releasing a beta version for Drupal 5, and learning that 6 was coming out "soon" a decision was made to start working towards the "future". However, Drupal 6 wasn't released until not very long ago and developers know how this has affected different projects and the not too fast move to Drupal 6 for a number of reasons. Not counting among the least important was the inavailability of some "core" contrib modules such as CCK, Views and OG until recently.
Nevertheless, phpEdu is alive and well, and in December 2008, the beta cycle started.