openSUSE-Sugar
Appliance Type
Community
Description
The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software.
Features & Benefits
Sugar is the collaborative and constructionist educational environment that is popularly known due to its installation on the One Laptop Per Child's xo netbooks. It is in fact a window manager and environment (like Gnome and KDE), but it is desgined especially for schools, having many educational activities that have been designed for it. It comes with many packages useful for learning, from Maths to physics, geography to biology. openSUSE has packaged about 50 activities in total for Sugar, with more activities available for installation from the sugarlabs.org activities repository. Activities that haven't been packaged can be downloaded directly from http://activities.sugarlabs.org
Pricing
Free
