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With the support of Sequoia hint, startup that develops innovative digital textbook platform release 2.0 is the technology that comes with increased collaboration and sharing functions.
As we wrote in the past, a hint of technology provides Interactive tutorials that include the ability to cooperate and communicate within the add multimedia content. Start adds another level of online textbooks by adding 3-D objects, videos, quizzes and even social interaction in content. Hint on synchronization technology allows students to collaborate in real time by sharing their notes and highlights with one another. And students can see the comments from his friends and professors of law, together with their own notes.
The latest version of the platform has been established "study group" in tectbooks, where students can ask questions and add comments anywhere in a book with classmates, teachers and others who are reading the same books, using the hint. Hint also added "expert" notes in the book that allows students to access their observations and comments.
All notes, highlights, bookmarks, and links created by students is now being saved to a designated Notepad. And search results within an allusion to the platform from Wikipedia or Google directly in your book, which can also be saved in Notepad.
Inkling is currently taking 50 educational institutions requiring e-textbook platform. And the company announced financing and partnership from some of the best educational publishers, including Pearson and McGraw Hill.
Of course e tutorial space competitive with Chegg, Kno, Amazon and many others all competing in the arena. But Inkling founder and Executive Director Matt Macinnis not too worried. Although he acknowledged that some competitors have more content, he believed that hint at the platform the most interactive, dealing with technology on the market. Currently, Macinnis is the iPad as an allusion to the platform of choice, but will eventually be expanded to other devices.
The company also attracts big venture money, a few weeks ago, hint announced 17 million Australian dollars, start the overall financing of $ mln., including its seeds, and a series of shots, as well as the influx of millions of dollars from publishers.
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