Re: [school-discuss] Open-source alternatives

[Michael Dean <michaelldean@sbcglobal.net>]

Computer Curriculum Corporation.  Sorry about the Plato stuff.  Spread 
the word.

Gordon Truesdale wrote:

> 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