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PhET Interactive Simulations is part of the University of Colorado Boulder which is a member of the Association of American Universities. [10] The team changes over time and has about 16 members consisting of professors, post-doctoral students, researchers, education specialists, software engineers (sometimes contractors), educators, and administrative assistants. [11]
ExploreLearning is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based education technology company that operates a large library of interactive online simulations for mathematics and science education in grades 3–12 called 'Gizmos'. ExploreLearning also makes Reflex, an online, game-based system for math fact memorization. [1]
The simulator may be used for training purposes, but it requires an instructor or some other external element to identify key learning aspects of the system to the learner. In education, simulations have had their use under a number of different names. Ken Jones [5] in the 1980s defined simulations as interactions between people such as role ...
1.16.1 Simulation games. 1.17 Spaced ... This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning ...
There is some overlap between educational games and interactive CD-ROMs and other programs (based on player agency), and between educational games and related genres like simulations and interactive storybooks (based on how much gameplay is devoted to education). This list aims to list games which have been marketed as educational.
Spongelab.com is a web-based teaching platform that allows educators to combine science, discovery learning tools and technology to create a visually engaging interactive whole. [1] The website is a self-described “global science community” [ 2 ] that has seen its base grow to more than 50,000 active monthly users. [ 3 ]
Teaching TV Production in a Digital World: Integrating Media Literacy recommended the use of Decisions, Decisions: Violence in the Media within the school curriculum. [3] Character Education in America's Blue Ribbon Schools felt the series effectively allowed students to work together in solving real world problems and analysing the results of ...
Since the v0.82 version, [5] miniBloq includes miniSim: a small 2D robot simulator, aimed specially for kids. It's a very simple tool to help teaching basic robot programming to kids whom do not own a real robot. miniBloq features some simple blocks that controls a small simulated robot with some remembrances to Logo, where the robot can draw a small environment (a maze, for example) and then ...