Abstract: An educational card game comprises a set of cards and rules for playing card games using them to facilitate Game Based Teaching and Learning is presented. Each card represents a respective one of the chemical elements listed in the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. The rules prescribe for cards to be distributed to the players who, in their turns in a particular round of the game, attempt to use the cards to win the round by creating meaningful patterns using the played card or by playing the highest value card in that round, or to spoil the round or to save a round from being spoiled by an opponent and optionally using the earned card to form chemical compounds or to form ironing equations, points being scored according the nature of the cards used or the nature of the compound formed, or both.

Abstract: An active learning system for use by at least one participant comprises a plurality of learning modules whose contents together make up a predetermined corpus of knowledge to be learned, a corresponding plurality of sets of training modules, each of the training module relating to a corresponding one of the learning modules, and rules prescribing a sequence of events constituting an editing session. The events comprise, for the or each participant, selecting at least some of said learning modules individually and successively, for each selected learning module selecting one of the set of related questions for the participant to answer, and recording progress of said at least one participant from a learning session start towards a learning session finish according to whether or not said at least one participant answers the selected ones of the set of related questions correctly.