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Flashnotes is currently being used to buy and sell notes at 367 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.If a user is the first person to upload notes from their school, that college or university will be added to the list of schools as soon as the notes have been uploaded.
Coles published a series of Canadian study guides called Coles Notes, and sold Hillegass the U.S. rights to the guides. Hillegass and his wife, Catherine, started the business in their basement at 511 Eastridge Drive in Lincoln, with sixteen William Shakespeare titles. By 1964, sales reached one million Notes annually.
[citation needed] Examples of companies that produce study guides include Coles Notes, SparkNotes, CliffsNotes, Schaum's Outlines, Permacharts, and Study Notes. Some high school teachers or college professors may compose study guides for their students to assist them with reading comprehension, content knowledge, or preparation for an examination.
StudySoup is an online peer-to-peer learning marketplace [5] [13] [11] [8] that allows students to sell [9] and purchase class notes and study guides. [1] [13] [14] [10] [11] The sellers or Elite Notetakers [5] have to undertake a training [9] [15] to understand the type of materials to be provided and its frequency.
The Cornell Notes system (also Cornell note-taking system, Cornell method, or Cornell way) is a note-taking system devised in the 1950s by Walter Pauk, an education professor at Cornell University. Pauk advocated its use in his best-selling book How to Study in College. [1] Studies with small sample sizes found mixed results in its efficacy.
Schaum's Outlines (/ ʃ ɔː m /) is a series of supplementary texts for American high school, AP, and college-level courses, currently published by McGraw-Hill Education Professional, a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill Education.
TheSpark.com was a literary website launched by four Harvard students on January 7, 1999. Most of TheSpark's users were high school and college students. To increase the site's popularity, the creators published the first six literature study guides (called "SparkNotes") on April 7, 1999.
Study Notes is an online learning tool created by high school junior Feross Aboukhadijeh in El Dorado Hills, California. It was released to the public in March 2007. By September 2011, Study Notes was receiving 10,000 page views per day. [2] As of September 2015, Study Notes has served over 43 million users.