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Educational software
Educational software is designed to support teaching and learning, whether in classrooms, at home or for self-study. It spans every level from early literacy and numeracy to university subjects and professional training. What distinguishes it from general software is a focus on explaining concepts, building skills through practice, and giving feedback, so that the program acts as a teaching aid rather than only a productivity tool.
Several styles are common. Drill-and-practice programs present exercises and check answers, reinforcing skills such as arithmetic, spelling or vocabulary. Tutorial software introduces new material step by step, often with examples and quizzes. Simulations let learners experiment with models of real systems — in physics, chemistry, biology or economics — observing how outcomes change when variables are altered, which is useful when real experiments are costly or impractical. Reference tools, language-learning programs and typing tutors fill other niches.
Supporting these are general-purpose utilities frequently used in education, including unit converters, calculators, equation editors and numerical tools that handle the routine calculations behind a lesson. Much educational software is distributed as freeware, which has made it widely accessible to schools and individual learners. The growth of interactive and web-based tools has extended the field further, but the underlying aim remains constant: to present material clearly and let students learn at their own pace.
Frequently asked questions
- What is drill-and-practice software?
- It presents repeated exercises and checks answers to reinforce a skill, such as arithmetic, vocabulary or spelling, through practice and feedback.
- How do educational simulations help learning?
- They model real systems so learners can change variables and observe the effects, making abstract or impractical experiments accessible.
- Is educational software usually free?
- Much of it is distributed as freeware, which has helped make a wide range of learning tools available to schools and individuals at no cost.
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software - Freeware:
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DOS:
DOS -
Software |
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Educational software:
Astronomy,
Chemistry,
Educational,
Geography,
Mathematics,
Physics |
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General:
General |
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Hardware:
Benchmarking,
Computerports,
CPU,
Hardware,
HDISK,
Memory,
Monitor
and LCD |
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Linux:
GNU/Linux OS,
Linux Applications |
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Miscellaneous:
File conversion tools,
File tools,
Miscellaneous,
PDF
Tools |
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Multimedia:
Audio,
Blu-ray, CD, DVD Tools,
Graphics tools,
Media players,
MP3-MPEG4 software,
Video-DIVx |
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Networking:
Internet tools,
Networking,
Online tools-internet,
TCP/IP tools,
Wireless |
| Online
tools:
Online tools |
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Security:
Safety
tools,
Spyware
removal,
Virus
software |
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Windows:
Windows,
Windows boot disks,
Windows tools |
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Educational software: Overview 
related topic: educational software about
Electronics |
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Animations
Catalytic Hydrogenation, Ethene Bonding (Double Bond) Animation, Fission Chain
Reaction, Heating/Cooling Curve Animation, Infrared Radiation Movie, Metallic
Bonding, Methane Bonding (Tetrahedral Molecule), Motion of Gas Particles
Animation, Motion of Liquid Particles Animation, Motion of Solid Particles
Animation, Nonpolar Covalent Bond Formation (Animation), Pouring butane movie,
Simple Catalytic Reaction, Vapor Pressure Animation, ... |
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Dynamic and Interactive Visualization with "Javaless" Applets or Interactive
Excel Spreadsheets Excelets are interactive Excel spreadsheets or
simulations of mathematical models. The user changes a variable and the
spreadsheet changes in numerical, graphical, and/or even symbolic form
(equations). Through the use of numerical experimentation and "what if"
scenarios, we have a powerful learning tool for students using readily available
off-the-shelf software. All of this is done computationally with no use of
programming, no macros or Visual Basics for Applications |
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Educational software |
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Educational software |
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Logiciels de Christian
RADOUX en Français |
| Logiciels gratuits de physique et chimie en Français |
| Logiciels gratuits
de SVT en Français |
| OpenEducationDisc
provides students with quick, easy and powerful tools specially selected to
solve their educational needs |
| Teachers
report assistant professional sounding, individualized report cards in the shortest possible time, uses a set of statements written by the teacher or
downloaded from the net which can then be tailored to suit individual students needs |
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Educational software: Topics
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Active Presenter
2.2
ActivePresenter is a screen capture and presentation creation tool designed for
simple screencasting, eTraining and eLearning. With blazing fast smart screen
capture technology and a powerful authoring environment, ActivePresenter
includes all the tools needed to record a presentation and easily convert the
output to video (AVI, WMV, MPEG4/MP4, Flash), HTML, interactive AJAX, or other
document formats (PDF, DOC, PPT) |
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Calendar Magic
Calendar Magic is an easy-to-use program that is entertaining, informative,
educational and of equal applicability in the home and in the office |
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Convert
The freeware program CONVERT converts any dBase formatted data base tables and
special the Geo Data supplied by C. Killet Software Ing.-GbR as dBase tables
into other data formats. Thus the import of the data in any data base management
system or file system will be possible, zip file |
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Converter
This free unit converter software is designed specifically for engineers. It
includes a wide range of technical categories required by engineers, but it
excludes the archaic and esoteric units that clutter the menus of the other
conversion programs |
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Converter
Unit Converter (for Windows), converts between most common standards |
| Diagram designer
simple vector graphics editor for creating flowchart, diagrams and slide shows |
| ECG simulation program
an interactive simulation program that enables one to study the relationship
between the electric activity of the ventricular myocardium and the resulting
potentials on the thorax |
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iSpring
PPT to Flash Conversion, iSpring CONVERTER is a freeware PowerPoint to Flash
converter that keeps original appearance of your PowerPoint presentations
regardless of their complexity |
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Metric Convertor
Metric Convertor will convert from metric to imperial and vice versa. There are
100 different choices covering; Length, Weight, Area, Volume, Temperature &
includes a scrollable calendar |
| Programming languages
C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, Java, BASIC, Perl, CGI, Ada, Prolog, Lisp, Smalltalk, APL, VHDL, Verilog |
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Resistor
colour code program it will show you the value of a resistor if you know the colour bands, or will tell you the colour band
code if you know the resistor's value |
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Scratch Scratch is a new
programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, games,
and animations – and share your creations with others on the web. |
| Scientific
calculator exe file |
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TeeChart
a free charting and plotting tool intended for both the end-user and the
developer |
| Time line
generator this generator can be used to make online
time lines of up to 14 events of your choice. It also allows you to make both vertical and horizontal timelines |
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Touch Typing Tutor for Windows Learn how to use your keyboard in a fun and
entertaining way for absolutely free |
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Wink Wink is a Tutorial
and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how
to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture
screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly
effective tutorial for your users |
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Office applications |
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Azeri Language and
Alphabet This dictionary system includes Azeri-English, English-Azeri,
Russian-Azeri dictionaries and Schoolchildren Dictionaries that allow
translations from English, German, and French into Azeri at the level of school
curriculum |
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eSpeak eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for
English and other languages, for Linux and Windows |
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Excel Viewer 2003 Open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't
have Excel installed |
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Conjugaison |
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Google translate client
With the Google Translate Client you can translate any text on a webpage and
other applications just by selecting it. The program uses the Google translation
services to translate the text |
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Language identifier
the Lextek Language Identifier is capable of identifying not only what language it is written in but also its character encoding and what
other languages are most similar |
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Lingo4you
Lingo4u-Dictionary is an English / German dictionary for Windows with more than
134,000 entries |
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Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File
Formats |
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OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office
suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites,
the product is free to download, use, and distribute |
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OpenOffice.org
Portable OpenOffice.org Portable is a complete office suite -- including a
word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database --
packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything
you need to work with them wherever you go |
| Traductor LIVE
Translates in real time as you type the keyboard |
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WOORDENBOEK
Nederlandse woordenboek-programma's voor vertalingen van en naar het Engels,
Frans, Duits, Spaans, Italiaans en Portugees |
| Wordnet 2.0
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English |
| WordWeb
WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can
look up words from in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look
up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia |
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