The world learns on Quizlet

EDUCATION

by THE OLBIOS TEAM

Quizlet started in 2005 when 15-year-old Andrew Sutherland created it for a high-school French class. He built Quizlet for himself, shared it with his friends, and it grew from there. Since then much of Quizlet’s code has been written by students who are still in school, including many college or high school student interns who use Quizlet in their own studies. Quizlet’s free study tools and apps are already used by over a million students and teachers a day in every country – from grade school to grad school, language learners to vocational students, at home and in the classroom. To make sure Quizlet is free and accessible to all, they’ve funded their growth from revenue so they’re not beholden to investors who need us to charge high prices or sell out. Quizlet today is a worldwide educational utility, with tools enabling anyone to study whatever they want. The users define what they need to learn (or teach), and how they want to do it. They help art history majors study paintings, spanish students learn their verbs, and seventh graders learn biology. To date, their users have created almost 40 million study sets, spanning every imaginable subject. Quizlet builds the study tools, and they provide the curriculum. People use Quizlet in every imaginable setting – public and private schools, religious schools, charter schools, prestigious universities, and even one-room schoolhouses. Students and teachers themselves, rather than schools, are the main customers, so they focus on building basic learning capabilities for individuals, rather than management tools or assessment software for institutions. They help students with things like memorization and recall of key concepts, and basic practice in everything from vocabulary to math to language learning. Quizlet has already be used by a hundred million people. Quizlet_website Website: http://quizlet.com/

 

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