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

• Bobo Explores Light
• ClueFinders titles
• Delta Drawing
• Edmark
• Fun School titles
• GCompris - free software (GPL)
• Gold Series
• JumpStart titles
• Kiwaka
• KidPix
• Lola Panda
• Museum Madness
• Ozzie series
• Reader Rabbit titles
• Tux Paint - free software (GPL)
• Zoombinis titles

Computer science

• JFLAP - Java Formal language and Automata Package

Cryptography

• CrypTool - illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts

Dictionaries and reference

• Britannica
• Encarta
• Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite

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
• Word Munchers

Literacy

• Accelerated Reader
• AutoTutor
• Compu-Read
• DISTAR

Managed learning environments

• ATutor (GPL)
• Blackboard Inc.
• Chamilo
• Claroline
• eCollege
• eFront (CPAL)
• Fle3 (GPL)
• GCompris (GPL)
• Google Classroom
• ILIAS (GPL)
• Kannu
• LON-CAPA - free software (GPL)
• Moodle - free software (GPL)
• OLAT - free software
• Renaissance Place
• Sakai Project - free software
• WebAssign

Mathematics

• Accelerated Math
• Cantor
• 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

• BlueJ
• Hackety Hack
• Racket
• RoboMind
• Scratch
• Swift Playgrounds

Science

• Betty's Brain
• Science Sleuths

Simulation

Simulation games

• Caesar titles
• Capitalism
• Civilization
• The Oregon Trail
• Sid Meier's Colonization
• SimCity
• Zoo Tycoon

Spaced Repetition

• Anki
• Memrise
• SuperMemo
• Synap
• Mnemosyne

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)

References

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