Re: [school-discuss] Open-source alternatives

[Gordon Truesdale <gordon@truechem.ca>]

Michael,

Sorry for the delay responding to this thread. Could you give us a 
little more info on CCC? Is there a website? Four or five years ago we 
purchased 3 seat liscences for Plato and it has been of marginal use.
Thank you,
Gordon

Michael Dean wrote:

> Yes, this is the same (possibly modernized for browser delivery) Plato 
> software I evaluated at the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium 
> in the late 70's!  Then the software didn't work, and my 
> investigations of more contemporary evaluations came to the same 
> conclusion!  If I recall, then students lost 10 months of math 
> achievement over what they would have accomplished with just a 
> teacher!  This is in contrast to CCC, where theirdrill and practice 
> modules caused students to gain 18 months!  A two year gap!
> troy@banther-trx.homeunix.com wrote:
>
> > Try www.plato.com