CafeGenius.com is open for business

Most high-school-level educational materials are designed to appeal to school district administrators and teachers, since they make the ultimate purchasing decisions. However, despite initiatives like “No Child Left Behind”, few (if any) educational resources are designed specifically to appeal to students.

In response to this oversight, The Smartacus Corporation today announced the grand opening of CafeGenius.com, a 24/7 tutorial library and study site for high school and home-school students.

CafeGenius hosts over 300 interactive learning modules, each focused on a single topic or core concept in math, science, languages, and more. “By concentrating on one concept per module, students can more easily find the help they need without digging through a textbook or struggling through an online course,” said Brian Shannon, Smartacus president.

For parents who want to help but aren’t “up” on the subjects, CafeGenius can provide a quick refresher for student and parent alike. Formula-solver modules, for example, show step-by-step solutions using the student’s own problems. Other modules employ the latest e-learning techniques that appeal to students’ differing learning styles.

“Currency and relevance are key in this market. Most textbook publishers are on five, six, or seven year revision cycles, so their books can get quite old,” said Rudy Lopes, Smartacus vice president of Operations. “Our library is much more current – our Astronomy modules, for example, include the latest discoveries from NASA’s Cassini-Huygens probe.”

CafeGenius offers monthly subscriptions to its ever-growing library, and includes a free-use page to give students and parents a sampling of the breadth and depth available. The Smartacus Corporation is a global publisher of e-learning materials for high school, home-school, and college students. It currently operates College-Cram.com, a 24/7 tutorial library and textbook alternative for college students, CafeGenius.com, a tutorial library and study site for high school and home-school students, and the Proximus PDA Study Center, which offers study programs for handheld PDAs. Its products focus on the student, and strive to be useful, useable, and unique.