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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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By putting the world’s library at our fingertips, search engines have revolutionised our lives, and both changed and challenged the nature and purpose of education. Why should I clutter my brain with information that is readily available from reference sources? – Albert Einstein. But the search companies have scarcely scratched the surface of what search…
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If you’ve ever opened a brand new textbook to find an erratum slip, you will already be familiar with one of the core problems of book publishing. Once printed, your content is set in stone. Get on the web, problem goes away. Find an error tonight, it’s changed by morning. But what about things that…
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Recruiting sergeants down the ages have known that young men come genetically preprogrammed to pledge their loyalty to the first vaguely plausible cause they are presented with, then go out to kill and maim in the name of it. Football clubs know that a stripey scarf is enough to trigger the same behaviour. Now we…
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Two students reported having problems downloading their work this week. Our programmers are working to fix the problem, but they need more examples. If you see this problem, please use the Report Bug feature to let us know!
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Chalkface alumnus Steve Eddy has gone live with his new venture Q&A Resources, an educational publishing cooperative. So far they have resources for A and AS Business Studies and Politics, and a range of English material. Congratulations Steve!
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