List of educational software
This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.
Educational software by subject
Anatomy
- 3D Indiana
- Bodyworks Voyager – Mission in Anatomy
- Primal Pictures
- Visible Human Project
Chemistry
- Aqion - simulates water chemistry
Children's software
Computer science
- JFLAP - Java Formal language and Automata Package
Cryptography
- CrypTool - illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts
Dictionaries and reference
Geography and Astronomy
- Cartopedia: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas
- Celestia
- Google Earth - (proprietary license)
- Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator
- KGeography
- KStars
- NASA World Wind - free software (NASA open source)
- Stellarium
- Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America - a game that teaches geography to children
- Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series
- WorldWide Telescope - a freeware from Microsoft
Health
- TeachAids
History
- Encyclopedia Encarta Timeline
- Euratlas
- Back in Time (iPad)
- Balance of Power
- Lemonade Stand
- Number Munchers
- Odell Lake
- Spellevator
- Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game
- Word Munchers
Literacy
- Accelerated Reader
- AutoTutor
- Compu-Read
- DISTAR
Managed learning environments
Mathematics
- Accelerated Math
- Cantor (software)
- Compu-Math: Fractions
- DrGeo
- Geogebra
- The Geometer's Sketchpad
- Maple
- Matlab / GNU Octave
- Mathematica
- Matheass
- Math Blaster
- Microsoft Mathematics
- RekenTest
- MathFacts in a Flash
- SAGE - free software (GPL)
- TK Solver
- Tux, of Math Command- free software (GPL)
Music
- Comparison of music education software
- EarMaster
- Yousician
- MuseScore
- Syntorial
Programming
Science
- Betty's Brain
- Science Sleuths
Simulation
Simulation games
- Caesar titles
- Capitalism
- Civilization
- The Oregon Trail
- Sid Meier's Colonization
- SimCity
- Zoo Tycoon
Touch-Typing Instruction
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
- Mario Teaches Typing
- Smorball
- Tux Typing - free software (GPL)
Visual Learning and Mind Mapping
- ConceptDraw MINDMAP
- Freemind - free software (GPL)
- Perception
- SpicyNodes
Notable brands and suppliers of educational software
- Dorling Kindersley
- Promethean World
- Renaissance Learning
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology (previously Riverdeep)
- SMART Technologies
- Software4Students
- RM plc
- Unicheck (previously Unplag)
Historical brands and suppliers
- Edu-Ware
- JumpStart Games (previously Knowledge Adventure)
- Davidson & Associates (merged with Knowledge Adventure)
- SoftKey (acquired by Mattel, then Riverdeep)
- Brøderbund (acquired by Softkey)
- The Learning Company (acquired by SoftKey)
- Creative Wonders (acquired by the Learning Company)
- MECC (acquired by Softkey)
- Edmark (acquired by Riverdeep)
References
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