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| Owner | StudyMode |
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Cram.com (formerly known as Flashcard Exchange) is a web-based application for creating, studying, and sharing flashcards. [1] Users on Cram.com have created over 68 million flashcards.
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| Owner | StudyMode |
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| URL | www |
| Registration | Optional |
Cram.com (formerly known as Flashcard Exchange) is a web-based application for creating, studying, and sharing flashcards. [1] Users on Cram.com have created over 68 million flashcards.
Cram.com was launched by StudyMode after it acquired FlashcardExchange.com and FlashcardDB.com. [2]
FlashcardExchange.com was originally launched in January 2001 by Culley Harrelson. [3] FlashcardExchange.com was praised by Education World as being "simply designed and intuitive to use". [4]
Users can create free accounts on the website to create their own flashcards. On FlashcardExchange.com, users had to pay to print and download flashcards, but all functionality on Cram is free. [2]
Flashcards can be created in a number of languages, such as English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Polish, and Portuguese. [4] Flashcards are placed into categories, including careers, language, computers, and others. [4]
A flashcard or flash card is a card bearing information on both sides, which is intended to be used as an aid in memorization. Each flashcard bears a question on one side and an answer on the other. Flashcards are often used to memorize vocabulary, historical dates, formulae or any subject matter that can be learned via a question-and-answer format. Flashcards can be virtual, or physical.
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify. The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve, and redistribute under some licenses. These are designed to reduce accessibility barriers by implementing best practices in teaching and to be adapted for local unique contexts.
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