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DreamBox Learning is partnered with the education startup Clever Inc. [24] In 2016, The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University performed a study that found a positive correlation between using DreamBox's adaptive learning and test scores, but could not state for certain that this was the result of using the computer program ...
BrainPop (stylized as BrainPOP) is a group of educational websites founded in 1999 by Avraham Kadar, M.D. and Chanan Kadmon, based in New York City. [1] As of 2024, the websites host over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K–8 (ages 5 to 14), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and ...
In 2012, Jessie was named one of Forbes' Impact 15 in education for her work at DreamBox. [6] She won the EdTech Digest's EdTech Leadership Award two times, for her work in improving innovation in education technology. [7] She was included in the Aspen Institute's 2007 class of Henry Crown Fellows and became moderator of the Aspen Institute.
Dreambox is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial and cable digital television receivers (set-top boxes), produced by German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia. History and description [ edit ]
Chumby Industries Logo A Chumby in the middle of downloading software. The Chumby was a consumer electronics product formerly made by Chumby Industries, Inc. It is an embedded computer which provides Internet and LAN access via a Wi-Fi connection.
OLPC XO-1 laptop in e-book mode. The XO-1 is designed to be low-cost, small, durable, and efficient. It is shipped with a slimmed-down version of Fedora Linux and a custom GUI named Sugar that is intended to help young children collaborate.
E2BMC is a XBMC-based software platform for DVR/PVR set-top boxes on-top embedded Linux hardware systems, designed as a hybrid integration between XBMC media center software and Dreambox's Enigma2 PVR software scripts, with OpenPLi (OpenEmbedded based Linux operating system for embedded systems) open source set-top box firmware images.
In 2014, he also wrote the book Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs, which details the development of free and open-source hardware primarily for scientists and university faculty. [81] Pearce in partnership with Elsevier introduced a scientific journal HardwareX. It has featured many examples of ...