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OpenSimon Tools

Teachers, students, and educational researchers can use these free tools to improve learning outcomes.

Improve efficiency in your learning space with OpenSimon tools. Engineered by and for instructional designers, teachers and students, our tools take learning to the next level.

Bazaar

Bazaar is a chat bot that can monitor student activity and prompt students for desired behavior.

ChemCollective

The ChemCollective is a collection resources to teach and learn chemistry.

Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT)

Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT) is a tool that allows educational researchers with limited programming experience to create cognitive tutors.

DataShop

DataShop provides a central repository to secure and store research data and a set of analysis and reporting tools.

DiscourseDB

DiscourseDB is a tool that brings together data from multiple sources and platforms used for learning experiences, including chat, threads, blogs, Twitter, wikis, text messages and more.

Echo

Teachers and educational researchers can author instrumented content for delivery through OLI.

LearnSphere

LearnSphere integrates existing and new educational data and analysis repositories to offer the world's largest learning analytics infrastructure.

LightSide

LightSide is an open-source application that helps educational researchers code textual social behavior data.

Mathtutor

The Mathtutor project provides cognitive tutors and associated tools to support students and teachers in learning middle school mathematics and fractions.

Open Learning Initiative

The Open Learning Initiative offers textbook-replacement courseware built on decades of research at CMU.

Project LISTEN

Project LISTEN (Literacy Innovation that Speech Technology ENables) is an interdisciplinary research project that uses an automated reading tutor to help improve literacy in children.

RoboTutor

RoboTutor is an Android tablet app that enables children ages 7–10 with little or no access to schools to learn basic reading, writing and arithmetic without adult assistance.

Social Recommendation Technology

Social Recommendation Technology is a chat bot that can help students in MOOC discussion forums.

Tetrad

Tetrad is suite of tools educational researchers can use to visualize causal models.

xBlock

XBlock is a discussion forum for improving scripted support for collaboration in massive open online courses (MOOCs).