Steve Lohr, “A Vocabulary Site Shows How to Tailor Online Education” (New York Times Bits blog, Apr. 10, 2013)
Thinkmap’s executive producer for Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com is Ben Zimmer, a linguist, lexicographer and author, who wrote the “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine after William Safire. Of Vocabulary.com, Mr. Zimmer said, “The technology makes it possible to create a dynamic learning environment that is personalized to the individual.”
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