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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)
This free software had an earlier incarnation, Macsyma. Developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s, it was maintained by William Schelter from 1982 to 2001. In 1998, Schelter obtained permission to release Maxima as open-source software under the GNU General Public license and the source code was released later that year ...
Advocates of license-free software, such as Bernstein, argue that software licenses are harmful because they restrict the freedom to use software, and copyright law provides enough freedom without the need for licenses. Though having some restrictions, these licenses allow certain actions that are disallowed by copyright laws in some jurisdictions.
A grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helped to establish the school, which opened to enrollment in the 2002–2003 school year. SuccessTech Academy offers a technology infused high school curriculum with a focus on problem and project based learning. All 59 students in the school's first senior class (2005-2006) were college-bound. [1]
Lightspeed Systems is an educational software company based in Austin, Texas that builds and sells SaaS content-control software, mobile device management, alert software, and classroom management software to K–12 schools.
The arrival of the personal computer, with the Altair 8800 in 1975, changed the field of software in general, with specific implications for educational software. Whereas users prior to 1975 were dependent upon university or government owned mainframe computers with timesharing, users after this shift could create and use software for computers in homes and schools, computers available for ...
In documentation and instructional design, tutorials are teaching-level documents that help the learner progress in skill and confidence. [7] Tutorials can take the form of a screen recording (), a written document (either online or downloadable), interactive tutorial, or an audio file, where a person will give step by step instructions on how to do something.
Cram schools in Hong Kong (also commonly known as "tutorial schools") are commercial organisations that cater principally to students preparing for public examinations at secondary school level, namely the Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE), and its precursors prior to 2012, Advanced Level and Certificate of Education (HKCEE) examinations.