Quality Certification for Dr. Geo
Vicenza, 12 of January 2005: The process of promotion in using free resources in education and teaching can profit from the interaction with national educational agencies which grant quality software certifications.
From this point of view Ofset, as organization for the development of free software for education and teaching, submitted in September 2004 Dr. Geo to the Italian agency INDIRE for evaluation.
Dr. Geo is a GTK interactive geometry software. It allows one to create geometric figure plus the interactive manipulation of such figure in respect with their geometric constraints. It is useable in teaching situation with students from primary or secondary level. Dr. Geo integrates advanced features as an integrated Scheme programming language to define scripts within a figure. The language is also used to define functionnaly interactive figure.
Dr. Geo obtained the INDIRE's quality certification with a definitive GOOD judgment. Ofset is proud of this result and it hopes that this lead to a more extensive diffusion in using free software at school.
About INDIRE
INDIRE is an Italian national institution for Documentation and Educational Research and Innovation. Its main activities in the educational field are related to the developement and management of a blended e-learning platform for teachers' formation (PuntoEdu) and to applied and theoretical research in formation, communication, education and documentation languages;
More information about Indire are avaliable at Indire
About OFSET
OFSET is an organization dedicated to the development of free software for education and teaching. To achieve this object, it has already developed software such as Dr. Geo (1st prize in a contest organised by the AFUL in 2000) or GCompris (1st prize in the education category at the Trophées du Libre contest in 2003). OFSET is also working on documentation to support the development and use of free software.
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