Create A Study Group on FunnelBrain

Create study teams and invite your classmates and friends from Facebook! Add Flashcards, Quizzes and Photos and have real-time discussions in the message forum. Teams are designed to help you work together with other students in your class or on another continent. Click below to set up your study group today or click here to check out some [...]

FunnelBrain Newsletter October 7

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Teaching Tips: How to Form Study Teams

In a recent post, I discussed the benefits of study teams.  In this post, I will offer a few tips on how to form study teams.  Before moving on to that topic, though, I want to share one more reason students should form study teams.  A long running study at Harvard University by Dr. Richard [...]

FunnelBrain Newsletter: Back To School Contest!

Welcome Back! FunnelBrain wants to welcome you back for the 2009-10 school year!  To kick things off, we are introducing a new contest so you can win cool stuff! It’s really easy to participate. Simply set-up a study team (or teams) on FunnelBrain and invite your classmates to join! Its fast, easy, and FREE!  Please [...]

Teaching Tips: The Power of Study Teams

We know that students learn best when they take an active role in the learning process.  This is not only common sense, it is a fundamental principle of teaching supported by ample research (see, for example, Tools for Teaching, by Barbara Gross Davis.  In this post I’m going to discuss one of the best techniques [...]

It’s Not About the Flashcards

So What Is It? Many people have told us they think FunnelBrain is the best flashcard site on the Internet.  Of course, we are gratified by this, but for those who look at FunnelBrain and see only a flashcard site, I have a surprise:  FunnelBrain is not really about flashcards. “Flashcard” is actually just a [...]

FunnelBrain Public Beta

Thanks for your continued support and feedback during our Alpha test period. Over the last couple months, we’ve been hard at work on new features for creating study materials and improving social collaborative learning.  This week, we introduced several updates based on your feedback including the ability to insert special characters into your flashcards, add [...]

Collaborate on FunnelBrain and create Study Groups and Flashcards

One of the great reasons to use FunnelBrain is that it gives you the ability to collaborate online with your fellow students.  What do I mean by “collaborate”?  Well, “collaborate” simply means “to work together.”  On FunnelBrain, you can work together with your fellow students to create sets of review questions and answers for all [...]