Open Source Education Software

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others.

Over 1,000,000 page views per month. Jmol/JSmol is a molecular viewer for 3D chemical structures that runs in four independent modes: an HTML5-only web application utilizing jQuery, a Java applet, a stand-alone Java program (Jmol.jar), and a "headless" server-side component (JmolData.jar). Jmol can read many file types, including PDB, CIF, SDF, MOL, PyMOL PSE files, and Spartan files, as well as output from Gaussian, GAMESS, MOPAC, VASP, CRYSTAL, CASTEP, QuantumEspresso, VMD, and many other quantum chemistry programs. Files can be transferred directly from several databases, including RCSB, EDS, NCI, PubChem, and MaterialsProject. Multiple files can be loaded and compared. A rich scripting language and a well-developed web API allow easy customization of the user interface. Features include interactive animation and linear morphing. Jmol interfaces well with JSpecView for spectroscopy, JSME for 2D->3D conversion, POV-Ray for images, and CAD programs for 3D printing (VRML export).

A touch typing tutor very flexible, supporting customizable keyboard layouts. You can edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts, as the basic course was designed to not depend on specific ones. Also, there are some charts about the learning process.

"Tux, of Math Command" is a math drill game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. Lessons are included from simple number typing through addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of positive and negative numbers. It is intended for kids ~4-10.

eXe, the eLearning XHTML editor, is a freely available authoring application that assists teachers in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported to the web or LMS.

Zekr is an open source Quran study software for Windows, Linux and Mac. It's designed to ease access to the most authentic and valuable text of Muslims. Zekr provides Quran translations, recitation, search and other features to study Holy Quran.

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. It's especially intended to make Wikipedia available offline. With Kiwix, you can enjoy Wikipedia on a boat, in the middle of nowhere... or in Jail. Kiwix manages to do that by reading ZIM files, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data.

MuseScore is the leading free & open source music notation software for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is easy to use and makes beautiful sheet music. MuseScore is often praised as a cost effective alternative for Sibelius and Finale. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate Like MuseScore on Facebook: http://facebook.com/musescore

forma.lms is an open-source, web-based elearning platform (learning management system - LMS), used to manage and deliver online training courses. It's focused on corporate training needs. The projects forma.lms ((aka formalms) was originally created as a fork of Docebo CE v 4.0.5. The support comnunity of forma.Lms is active on https://forum.formalms.org/

OpenTeacher is an opensource application that helps you learn a foreign language vocabulary. Just enter some words in your native and foreign language, and OpenTeacher tests you.

*** Development moved to GitHub at https://github.com/lenmus/lenmus *** LenMus is a free program for learning music. It allows you to focus on specific skills and exercises, on both theory and aural training. The different activities can be customized to meet your needs. It includes an score editor.

Reference management, bibliography management, citations and a whole lot more. Designed by academics for academics, under continuous development since 2003, and used by both individuals and major research institutions worldwide, WIKINDX is a Virtual Research Environment (an enhanced on-line bibliography manager) storing searchable references, notes, files, citations, ideas, and more. An integrated WYSIWYG word processor exports formatted articles to RTF and HTML. Plugins include a citation style editor and import/export of bibliographies (BibTeX, Endnote, RIS etc.). WIKINDX supports multiple attachments with each reference, multiple language localizations, and uses a template system to allow users to visually integrate WIKINDX into their sites. WIKINDX runs on a web server giving you and your research group ownership and global access from any web-enabled device. You manage your database, you own your data. WIKINDX can be test-driven at: https://testdrive.wikindx.com

Create, edit and share your own levels with Angry Birds Open-Level Editor! Select any items and characters as you want and add it to your level screen. Then export it to a file and play it in the game or share it to your friends! This software is... free, easy and offline!

Graph is a program used for drawing graphs of mathematical functions. It is easy to use while having a lot of features and settings. Official web site is located at http://www.padowan.dk

Web application for management formal representations of knowledge, thesauri, taxonomies and multilingual vocabularies / Aplicación para la gestión de representaciones formales del conocimiento, tesauros, taxonomías, vocabularios multilingües. For the latest version of code: https://github.com/tematres/TemaTres-Vocabulary-Server

Software designed for remediation of dyscalculia (or mathematical learning disabilities) in children aged 4-8 and for teaching number sense in kindergarten children. For more information, visit the unicog lab website using the link below. NOTE: To use The Number Race, you may need to download TWO files, the main program (above), AND a language pack. To get to the language packs, click on "Files" on the menu bar above, and select version and the appropriate language. If you are lucky there might be an installer + language pack available as one download. Check "Files" -> version -> Language

ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Management System (LMS), designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Author interoperable e-learning content, provides social networking, and adheres to standards. Put your courses online.

Cybera is an Internet cafe administration system. It works with prepaid cards or client accounts or in a post paid Self Service mode. Features include workstation control, user rights lockdown, accounting, stats and screen replication for CAI.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities

Claroline is collaborative learning environment based on PHP/mySQL. It allows teachers or education institutions to create and administer courses through the web. The software provides group management, forums, document repositories, calendar, SCORM,...

Structorizer is a little tool which you can use to create Nassi-Schneiderman Diagrams (NSD). Stuctorizer is written in Java and free for any use. The code has been moved to Github: https://github.com/fesch/Structorizer.Desktop

Tria Operating System detects hard & soft specs of the PC where you run the program, offering the ability to load this info or specify it manually to let the program inform you what would be the best operating system for a specific PC, with the specified hardware, and then see the difference by adding RAM, a SSD hard drive, changing the graphics card ... etc. REQUIREMENTS: For Linux, you need Gambas 3.3 or later, so you will have to install the gambas3 package before installing. 90's EDITION requires 256 MB of RAM and works with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. BRONTOSAURUS EDITION needs DirectX 9.0c and .Net Framework 2.0 and runs on Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME & Windows 2000. XP EDITION requires .Net Framework 4.0 or newer. Runs on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, 2003 R2, Home Server and Server 2008. STANDARD EDITION needs .Net Framework 4.8 or 4.8.1 and runs on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and newer (any Windows released from 2009 until today).