Oops, I sent the below off-list by mistake. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:28 AM Subject: Re: Open Simulator with Physics Engine To: Joshua Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Making a good learning simulator is an art. Too few degrees of freedom, and it is just boring; but too many are sometimes just distracting from the concept being discovered. There are some good ones in Java at http://phet.colorado.edu/web-pages/simulations-base_es.html ... these have gone through usability testing, and each is tailored to learning a related concept set. I do not know how open the University of Colorado would be to putting these under some kind of open license, but it is certainly worth a shot - they distribute them pretty openly. Jameson
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