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"Email alone is no longer an effective tool to reach today's students and many students rarely log into your institution's learning management system, however, they do check their phones and Facebook accounts multiple times per day. ConnectYard's QuickConnect Widget can help your institution make its learning management systems more social, interactive and engaging. QuickConnect allows any user within a course to post homework and study questions using a simple HTML badge that can be easily added to popular learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai and others. Those questions are then delivered to other class members through their favorite social networking site, mobile phone or email. Both students and instructors have the option of replying to questions via Facebook, Twitter, text message, or ema"

"There is nothing that beats mind maps when it comes to increasing one's retention rates. Mind maps enable our minds to visually process information creating thus strong neural pathways to hold the learned information for an extended period of time"