By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
A team at Purdue University has developed a new application that lets its students create online study groups and participate in them within Facebook. The program also lets users sync and share documents via Dropbox. Mixable was created by some of the same people who released HotSeat last year, an application that lets students text during their class and have their messages viewed by other participants in that class. According to Kyle Bowen, director of informatics in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue and lead for the project, although the university uses a course management system to exchange files and collaborate, Mixable was developed to let students manage their own learning. “Courses in Blackboard are typically delivered in a top-down fashion, where the faculty drive most activities,” he explained. “In contrast, Mixable grants students control of the conversation. Mixable also allows students to share their resources and discussions across courses–something that can be difficult to do with current systems.”
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