Carnegie Mellon University

OpenSimon: Learning Engineering for Everyone

Improve learning outcomes for individual learners while collectively advancing our larger understanding of human learning.

The vision behind OpenSimon is a more integrated and easier-to-use toolkit, used and expanded by a larger community of educators to drive deliberate, iterative improvements in education. This approach supports educators as citizen scientists, and helps the people who support them — at universities and companies that make educational products — provide help that is grounded in the science of learning.

OpenSimon Webinars

This series consists of instruction, examples, and demonstrations of learning engineering techniques and tools and celebrates best practices in applied learning science from members of the community. 

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Resources

We offer support and scaffolding for learning engineers and educational researchers for iterative improvement of instructional strategies and content.

Community

Our community of learning engineers, educators and researchers is growing quickly. Our knowledge is self-perpetuating as learnings are shared and built-upon.

Results

We advocate for evidence-based practices in learning design and delivery. Our resources continually improve to enhance results.

The OpenSimon Toolkit

The tools, techniques, content and code in the OpenSimon Toolkit offer the ability for any educator to perform the cycle of learning engineering in its entirety toward iterative improvement of content delivered to their students.

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Techniques

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Tools

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Content

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Code

$100 MILLION+

IN BACKED RESEARCH BY WORLD-RENOWNED ORGANIZATIONS

50+ SOFTWARE INTEGRATIONS

IN ADOBE CAPTIVATE, UNITY AND MORE

50+ LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

INCLUDING COURSES AND CATALOGS

OpenSimon in Action

Read about how educators are incorporating the OpenSimon Toolkit into their classrooms.

Case Study

Leveling the Playing Field

Built using the OpenSimon Toolkit, the Discrete Math Primer was designed to target prerequisite math skills that struggling students sometimes lack during their first Carnegie Mellon computer science math course. Because of the program's success, other colleges have begun using the DMP curriculum.

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Case Study

Teamwork 2.0

Researchers at CMU’s Simon Initiative created two tools called CollaborativeU and ConflictU to help students learn how to better work with one another and address conflict in group settings, two skills highly sought after by employers. More than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students across Carnegie Mellon's campuses have used the modules.

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Interested in receiving updates and learning more about the toolkit as it develops? Want to explore ways to collaborate with the Simon Initiative? Stay up-to-date on new developments and opportunities to work together.

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For faculty and staff inquiries, please contact:
Erin Czerwinski, Product and Community Manager for The Simon Initiative