CASE STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARES

Educational Software
Mainly there are two categories of Educational Software
a) To facilitate Education/Learning/Training
i) Teaching/ Self-learning/Training Kits
Examples of children’s learning software are ClickN KIDS, Disney Interactive learning
titles based on characters such as Winne-the-Pooh, Aladdin, The Jungle Book and
Mickey Mouse.
ii) Mainly for students/teachers to have/facilitate training on the subjects
Educational institutions like MIT have web-based publication of virtually all course
contents offered by them. Eg; MIT OpenCourse Ware(ocw.mit.edu), Georgetown
University Law Centre(www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty) etc.
b) To manage Learning Process
i) Learning Management Systems
A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration,
documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online
events, e-learning programs, and training content.
ii) Provide Collaborative Learning and Evaluation experience.
Educational Software Examples
For children
 ClueFinders titles
 GCompris - free software (GPL)
 JumpStart titles
 KidPix
 Reader Rabbit titles
 Tux Paint - free software (GPL)
 Zoombinis titles

List of LMS -EXAMPLES
 Alphastudy learning and knowledge portals, free web-based
 ATutor (GPL)
 Blackboard Inc.
 Chamilo
 Claroline
 eCollege
 eFront (CPAL)
 Dokeos (GPL)
 Fle3 (GPL)
 GCompris (GPL)
 ILIAS (GPL)
 JoomlaLMS
 LON-CAPA - free software (GPL)
 Moodle - free software (GPL)
 OLAT - free software
 Renaissance Place
 Sakai Project - free software
 SharePointLMS
 WebAssign