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There was a surge of emails and tweets in response to my post a couple of weeks back asking how teachers were using Memrise and how it could be made more useful. Thank you all!

I want to open up the discussion around teacher's experiences and how we think that these can help shape our future product developments. Please do get involved and let us know what you think!

Today I'd like to look at some feedback from a Business and Economics teacher who got in touch with some very in...

Ben stopped by the BBC bright and early this morning to discuss a new study on memory, as well as some of the exciting new things we're up to here at Memrise. Enjoy!

Last week a teacher called Simon Birch from Broxbourne school sent me a presentation that he had done for other teachers in his school about how he is using Memrise to help his students get better results. It was a delight to read! Aside from the fact that Simon had found a dramtic improvement in the test scores of his students when they used Memrise (average 64% vs 42%), I was particularly interested by the anecdotal feedback about what bits o...

In February, we announced a spectacular memory competition on this blog in conjunction with Tim Ferriss, author of the Four Hour Chef. The competition was to see if a complete beginner could learn in a short space of time to reach the gold standard of memory techniques, and be able to learn the order of a shuffled deck in less than a minute. This seemingly impossible achievement in the end has nothing to do with extraordinary brain-power, and is all about technique - or so we believe.

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We've been hard at a work for a few years now, building out the Memrise site. With more than 100 million things learned by more than half a million learners, we're proud how far we've come. We're especially proud of the creativity of our learning community- by streets the best on the web, now producing tens of thousands of mems every day.

From the earliest days, though, if there's one thing our community has asked for, it's the capacity to take their learning on the go. To be able to...