This CD-ROM contains a collection of free e-learning tools suitable for advanced learners and useful for instructed learning and self-learning.
The e-learning tools on the CD-ROM are divided into the following categories: Geography & Astronomy, Language Learning, Mathematics, Science, Programming and Memorizing.
Geography & Astronomy
Language Learning
- Hot Potatoes
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications enabling to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the world wide web.
- EclipseCrossword
http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/help.html
EclipseCrossword is an easy way teachers to create professional crossword puzzles in seconds.
- Selingua
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/selingua
Selingua is a vocabulary training program with built-in dictionaries - more than 2,000 words in each of the following languages: English (both American and British), German, Spanish, French and Swedish.
- Selingua Columns
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/selingua-columns/
Play a ‘Tetris’-style game for learning French, German, Spanish or Swedish.
- Sephonics
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/sephonics/
Sephonics is a program that will teach you the English phonetic alphabet, which is a subset of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Mathematics
- Geogebra
http://www.geogebra.org
GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus.
- Graph
http://www.padowan.dk/graph
Graph assists user to draw mathematical graphs in a coordinate system.
- GraphCalc
http://www.graphcalc.com/index.shtml
GraphCalc provides an all-in-one solution from everyday arithmetic to statistical analysis, from betas to Booleans, from cubes to calculus, from decimals to derivatives.
- Maxima
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors.
Science
Programming
Memorizing
Each application has been thoroughly tested and verified by a team from the ICT in Education Programme, to ensure its effectiveness and safety. The tools have also been checked to make sure that they do not include any viruses, adware, malware or spyware.
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