43:(UCL) which focused on how students learn and engage with content. The concept for BlikBook was developed whilst the founders were studying some difficult lecture material. Unable to get the answers to their questions without contacting a number of their peers and eventually the lecturer, they became motivated to create a more efficient process for students and lecturers to interact outside of the lecture theatre . In 2011, Rene Olivieri, former CEO of Blackwell Publishing, COO of Wiley Blackwell and current
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