This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.

Educational software by subject

Anatomy

3D Indiana 3D Indiana is a commercial Educational software for teaching and research on the human anatomy. The name is an acronym for Three-Dimensional Interactive Digital Anatomy. This software is based on the principles of ''volumetric anatomy'' which uses ...

* Bodyworks Voyager – Mission in Anatomy *

Primal Pictures Primal Pictures is a business established in 1991 that provides 3D graphic renderings of human anatomy, built using real scan data from the Visible Human Project, for use by healthcare students, educators, and medical professionals. It operates t ...

* Visible Human Project

Chemistry

* Aqion - simulates water chemistry

Children's software

* Bobo Explores Light * ClueFinders titles * Delta Drawing *

Edmark Edmark Corporation (or simply Edmark) was a publisher of educational print materials and an educational software developer in Redmond, Washington. They developed software for Microsoft Windows and MacOS in several languages and sold it in over a d ...

Fun School Fun School is a series of educational packages developed and published in the United Kingdom by Europress Software, initially as ''Database Educational Software''. The original Fun School titles were sold mostly by mail order via off-the-page adver ...

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GCompris GCompris is a software suite comprising educational entertainment software for children aged 2 to 10. GCompris was originally written in C and Python using the GTK+ widget toolkit, but a rewrite in C++ and QML using the Qt widget toolkit has ...

- free software ( GPL) *

Gold Series Scetlander (later known as Lander Software) was a software publisher which released titles for various 8- and 16-bit home computer systems in the 1980s and 1990s. Games ''Gold Series'' is a collection of educational games for the ZX Spectrum d ...

JumpStart ''JumpStart'' (known as ''Jump Ahead'' in the United Kingdom) is an educational media franchise for children, consisting mostly of educational games, produced by JumpStart Games. The series originally consisted of a series of educational PC gam ...

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Kiwaka Kiwaka is an educational game for iOS, macOS and tvOS designed to teach children about astronomy. The app was developed by the Portuguese software company Landka in collaboration with scientific institutions such as the European Space Agency (ES ...

* KidPix * Lola Panda *

Museum Madness ''Museum Madness'' is an educational video game for MS-DOS and Macintosh developed by Novotrade for MECC, and was released in 1994. The game is based in an American natural history museum and aims to teach the player many aspects of history such ...

* Ozzie series * Reader Rabbit titles * Tux Paint - free software ( GPL) *

Zoombinis ''Zoombinis'' was a series of educational puzzle computer games that were originally developed by TERC and published by Broderbund. In 1998, Broderbund was purchased by The Learning Company, (formerly SoftKey) who took responsibility for develop ...

titles

Computer science

* JFLAP - Java Formal language and Automata Package

Cryptography

* CrypTool - illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts

Dictionaries and reference

* Britannica * Encarta * Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite

Geography and Astronomy

Cartopedia ''Cartopedia: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas'' was an atlas program originally published by Dorling Kindersley Multimedia in 1995. It featured interactive world maps and graphs and charts of international statistics, and served as a reference ...

: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas *

Celestia Celestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through our universe and explore real objects that have been catalogued. Celestia also doubles as a pl ...

Google Earth Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geog ...

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) * Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator * KGeography * KStars *

NASA World Wind NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website (https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/), "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allow ...

- free software ( NASA open source) *

Stellarium A stellarium is a three-dimensional map of the stars, typically centered on Earth. They are common fixtures at planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entert ...

* Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America - a game that teaches geography to children * Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series *

WorldWide Telescope WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is an open-source set of applications, data and cloud services, originally created by Microsoft Research but now an open source project hosted on GitHub. The .NET Foundation holds the copyright and the project is manage ...

- a freeware from Microsoft

Health

* TeachAids

History

* Encyclopedia Encarta Timeline * Euratlas * Back in Time (iPad) * Balance of Power * Lemonade Stand *

Number Munchers ''Number Munchers'' is a 1986 video game and a spin-off to the title '' Word Munchers''. It was made by MECC for Apple II, then ported to DOS and Macintosh in 1990. The concept of the game was designed by R. Philip Bouchard, who also designed ''Th ...

* Odell Lake *

Spellevator ''Spellevator'' is an educational video game for the Apple II published by MECC in 1988. Gameplay The player controls a dust bunny, which is chased by several vacuum cleaners with different movement patterns. The objective of the level is to ...

* Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game *

Word Munchers ''Word Munchers'' is a 1985 video game and the first of the ''Munchers'' educational series. It was made by MECC for Apple II, then ported to DOS and Macintosh in 1991. It was re-released in 1996 for Windows and Macintosh as "Word Munchers Deluxe" ...

Literacy

* Accelerated Reader *

AutoTutor AutoTutor is an intelligent tutoring system developed by researchers at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, including Arthur C. Graesser that helps students learn Newtonian physics, computer literacy, and critic ...

Compu-Read ''Compu-Read'' is an educational program originally developed by Sherwin Steffin of Edu-Ware Services in 1979 for the Apple II. It consists of four modules training the user in rapidly increasing comprehension and retention: Character Recognition ...

DISTAR Direct Instruction (DI) is a term for the explicit teaching of a skill-set using lectures or demonstrations of the material to students. A particular subset of direct instruction, denoted by capitalization as Direct Instruction, refers to a speci ...

Managed learning environments

ATutor ATutor is an open source web-based learning management system (LMS). Use ATutor is used in various contexts, including online course management, continuing professional development for teachers, career development, and academic research.(See e ...

(GPL) * Blackboard Inc. *

Chamilo Chamilo is a free software (under GNU/GPL licensing) e-learning and content management system, aimed at improving access to education and knowledge globally. It is backed up by the Chamilo Association, which has goals including the promotion of ...

Claroline Claroline is a collaborative eLearning and eWorking platform (learning management system) released under the GPL open-source license. It allows organizations to create and administer courses and collaboration spaces over the web. The platform is ...

* eCollege *

eFront eFront was an affiliate marketing network which purchased successful websites, such as ''Penny Arcade,'' SquareGamer, and BetaNews, and pooled traffic to those sites to command higher prices for advertising during an industrywide ad revenue slowd ...

( CPAL) *

Fle3 Fle3 is a Web-based learning environment or virtual learning environment. More precisely Fle3 is server software for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Fle3 is designed to support learner and group centered work that concentrates ...

(GPL) *

Google Classroom Google Classroom is a free blended learning platform developed by Google for educational institutions that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process o ...

* ILIAS (GPL) * Kannu *

LON-CAPA LON-CAPA (Learning Online Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach) is an e-learning platform, also known as a Course Management System (CMS) or Learning Management System ( LMS). It possesses the standard features of many learning pla ...

- free software ( GPL) * Moodle - free software ( GPL) * OLAT - free software * Renaissance Place *

Sakai Project Sakai is a free, community source, educational software platform designed to support teaching, research and collaboration. Systems of this type are also known as Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Le ...

- free software * WebAssign

Mathematics

Accelerated Math Accelerated Math is a daily, progress-monitoring software tool that monitors and manages mathematics skills practice, from preschool math through calculus. It is primarily used by primary and secondary schools, and it is published by Renaissance L ...

* Cantor (software) * Compu-Math: Fractions *

DrGeo GNU Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that allows its users to design & manipulate interactive geometric sketches. It is free software (source code, translations, icons and installer are released under GNU GPL license), created by Hilaire Fe ...

* Geogebra *

The Geometer's Sketchpad The Geometer's Sketchpad is a commercial interactive geometry software program for exploring Euclidean geometry, algebra, calculus, and other areas of mathematics. It was created as part of the NSF-funded Visual Geometry Project led by Eugene Klo ...

* Maple * Matlab / GNU Octave *

Mathematica Wolfram Mathematica is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of technical computing that allow machine learning, statistics, symbolic computation, data manipulation, network analysis, time series analysis, NLP, optimizat ...

* Matheass *

Math Blaster ''Math Blaster!'' is a 1983 edutainment video game, and the first entry in the "Math Blaster" series within the '' Blaster Learning System'' created by Davidson & Associates. The game was developed by former educator Jan Davidson. It would be revi ...

* Microsoft Mathematics * RekenTest * MathFacts in a Flash *

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- free software ( GPL) *

TK Solver TK Solver (originally TK!Solver) is a mathematical modeling and problem solving software system based on a declarative, rule-based language, commercialized by Universal Technical Systems, Inc. History Invented by Milos Konopasek in the late 19 ...

* Tux, of Math Command- free software ( GPL)

Music

Comparison of music education software The following comparison of music education software compares general and technical information for different music education software. For the purpose of this comparison, music education software is defined as any application which can teach mus ...

* EarMaster *

Yousician Yousician is a Finnish interactive and music education, educational music service made to learn and play a musical instrument. It currently supports the following musical instrument, musical instruments: guitar, piano (Keyboard instrument, keybo ...

* MuseScore * Syntorial

Programming

BlueJ BlueJ is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Java programming language, developed mainly for educational purposes, but also suitable for small-scale software development. It runs with the help of Java Development Kit (JDK). BlueJ ...

Hackety Hack Hackety Hack is an open source application that teaches individuals how to create software. It combines an IDE with an extensive Lessons system. The cross-platform desktop application also has integration with the website, where "Hackers" can sha ...

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RoboMind RoboMind is a simple educational programming environment with its own scripting language that allows beginners to learn the basics of computer science by programming a simulated robot. In addition to introducing common programming techniques, it a ...

* Scratch * Swift Playgrounds

Science

Betty's Brain Betty's Brain is a software environment created at Vanderbilt University by the ''Teachable Agents Group'' to help promote students' understanding of metacognitive skills and to reinforce river ecosystem knowledge as part of a science curriculum. I ...

* Science Sleuths

Simulation

Simulation games

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'' titles * '' Capitalism'' * '' Civilization'' * '' The Oregon Trail'' * '' Sid Meier's Colonization'' * '' SimCity'' * '' Zoo Tycoon''

Spaced Repetition

* Anki * Memrise * SuperMemo * Synap * Mnemosyne

Touch-Typing Instruction

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing ''Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing'' is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. History The typing program was initially released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks and has been published regularly ever since. The first ...

Mario Teaches Typing ''Mario Teaches Typing'' is an educational video game developed and published by Interplay for MS-DOS compatible operating systems, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh. The game uses the Mario character, licensed from Nintendo, to teach keyboard skill ...

* Smorball * Tux Typing - free software ( GPL)

Visual Learning and Mind Mapping

ConceptDraw MINDMAP ConceptDraw MINDMAP is proprietary mind mapping and brainstorming software developed by CS Odessa for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS operating systems. The mind mapping technology of visual thinking was invented by Tony Buzan in the 1960s ...

Freemind FreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in Java, which is further developed by the fork Freeplane until today (2021). FreeMind itself was last updated in 2014. FreeMind is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2. It pr ...

- free software ( GPL) * Perception *

SpicyNodes SpicyNodes was a system for displaying hierarchical data, in which a focus node displays detailed information, and the surrounding nodes represent related information ( Focus + Context), with a layout based on radial maps. It has web (Flash) and m ...

Notable brands and suppliers of educational software

* Dorling Kindersley * Knowledge Adventure * The Learning Company *

Promethean World Promethean World Ltd is a global education technologies company that develops, integrates and implements learning environments. Promethean is held by NetDragon Websoft, a Chinese video game company, who acquired Promethean in 2015. The company's g ...

* Renaissance Learning * Riverdeep * SMART Technologies * RM plc * Unplag

Historical brands and suppliers

Brøderbund Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools. Broderbund is best known for the 8-bit video game hits ''Choplifter'', ''Lode Runner'', ''Karateka'', and '' ...

(now part of The Learning Company) *

Creative Wonders Creative Wonders was an educational software corporation from 1994 to 1999. It created computer games based on children's characters like ''Sesame Street'', ''Madeline'', ''Schoolhouse Rock!'', ''Arthur'', '' Little Bear'', ''Dr. Seuss'' and ''AB ...

(now part of the Learning Company) *

Davidson & Associates Davidson & Associates, Inc. was an American developer of educational software based in Torrance, California. The company was founded in 1984 by husband-and-wife Bob and Jan Davidson, the latter of whom led the company as president until January 1 ...

(merged with Knowledge Adventure) *

Edu-Ware Edu-Ware Services, Inc. was an educational and entertainment software publisher established in 1979 bSherwin Steffinand Steven Pederson. It was known for its adventure games, role-playing video games, and flight simulators for the Apple II famil ...

* MECC

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