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'Engagement promotes a student's academic success, and activities such as discussing coursework outside of class and working with other students on projects correlate with a student's academic performance.¹ Increasingly, students turn to social networks as a tool for enabling this discussion. In a 2010 ECAR study, more than half of the students who use social networks indicated that they use them as a means to communicate with classmates about course-related topics.² The same tools students use to manage their social life are the ones they choose to support their own learning.

In the fall of 2010, Purdue University released Mixable. This new web and mobile application enables students to build and share their personal learning environments using the social tools they already  know — Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox. The system is presented as Facebook, web, and mobile applications, with features designed to facilitate common tasks such as status updates, microblogging, document sharing, and bookmarking. Mixable also offers Facebook friend suggestions by blending the students' own enrollment and learning community information with their already existing networks of friends within Facebook.'

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