Open source
Tools in the open
Tools built in the open, mostly for people teaching and running institutions.
SLAM
MCP server · Assessment
The Stanford Learning Assessment Model: a formative-assessment layer for AI workflows. A cloud API, a remote MCP server, and a one-click bridge surface the evidence in a piece of student work, what is strong, what is missing, and what to do next. It does not assign grades.
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Skill & Output Grader
Evaluation
Grades the pedagogical quality of AI skills and of what they produce. Deterministic checks catch answer leakage, fabricated evidence, and missing coverage at no cost, and an LLM judge scores only what needs judgment. Paste a SKILL.md to review the skill, or paste an output to check the work.
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Higher Education Plugins for Claude
Claude plugins
Plugins for faculty and academic administrators, covering course design, grant writing, scholarly communication, institutional governance, student-facing work, and research compliance.
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Living Textbooks
Open educational resources
Textbooks published as open-source projects rather than editions: freely usable, continuously corrected, and improvable by any instructor who teaches from them. The materials sit on ordinary GitHub infrastructure, so adapting one is a fork and improving it is a pull request.