Carnegie Mellon University’s Simon Initiative announced the contribution of $100 million of open source software that they have developed over the years to conduct their own applied learning science methodology, which they call “learning engineering.” Think of OpenScience as a free, state-of-the-art learning engineering laboratory that you can use to start learning the techniques that they have developed, or techniques that you and others can develop. At the 2019 EEP summit, CMU announced that the EEP network will be the pilot group for developing OpenSimon support and the CMU will collaborate with the Empirical Educator Project LLC to develop short workshops to help people become oriented to learning engineering basics and prepare them for more in-depth offerings that are available at the university.
Details of the OpenSimon toolkit are available here.