News update - the Memrise Mobile App!

by on 10 June 2013

Memrise has gone mobile! Android and iOS apps are out and setting the learning world alight. Here are some details, and what's in store for the next updates:

  • Take a course "offline" if you are going out of internet range: it will sync your progress back to the site next time you are online. <...

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Call for ideas! Alexa Meade is our new mem-creator in residence

by on 31 May 2013

It's our great honour and pleasure to have the internationally renowned artist Alexa Meade in the studio this week as our artist in residence. Alexa's passing through London town on her way to speak at Ted Global in Edinburgh next week, and, as she did once before, she's moved into our creative studio to make art. Awesome.

We thought it'd be fun this time round for Alexa to get stuck i...

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Memrise in the classroom

by on 14 May 2013

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...

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Memrise's Ben Whately on BBC Breakfast this morning

by on 26 April 2013

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!

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Calling all teachers!

by on 23 April 2013

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...

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