The Berlin-based startup's high quality app is the first educational application with both comprehensive and affordable learning material for iPad users that facilitates entertaining and multi-media language learning any time, any place.

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The Lutherans have some great material for learning Biblical Hebrew here, and Biblical Greek here.

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Students in the other group spent that time reading an article about how memory works and learning new strategies for recalling material.

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The larger market opportunity appears to be in short-form learning games that function as supplemental material.

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The learning curve in putting this tricky new material to work has been climbed by Tokyo-based Toray and Mitsubishi, not by Boeing.

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This largely illiterate group was learning by heart some of the songs and biblical material we were going to use later in the service.

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Students who enroll will receive the study material and related support from IGNOU and will also receive daily learning content via Life Tools.

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"We see it as source material that will support education worldwide, including innovations in the process of teaching and learning itself, " said MIT President Charles Vest in a statement.

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