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BOSTON, March 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to provide new and more effective ways for students to study and learn, Cengage Learning, a global education company, and Flashnotes.com, an online student-to-student study materials marketplace, today announced the Cengage Learning Scholar Program. The preferred seller program enhances peer-to-peer learning and empowers instructors to support better learning outcomes, while allowing scholars to profit from their exceptional note-taking, and other students to find varied ways to learn and understand course concepts.
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Instructors using a Cengage Learning product, such as MindTap, the company's personalized digital learning platform, will have the opportunity to recruit one student as a Cengage Learning Scholar within Flashnotes.com. Each selected student will be responsible for posting weekly summaries using notes, study guides, flashcards, video tutorials and/or offering live help on Flashnotes.com. The scholar will set their own price and earn 70% of each sale.
An instructor at Arkansas Tech University, Carey Roberts, noted that with the use of MindTap and Flashnotes.com, "Student's learning improved dramatically, and their grades improved by a full letter - from a C- average to...