Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
February 2 - 2010 Horizon Report Identifies Six Technologies to Watch
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have released the 2010 Horizon Report. The annual Horizon Report features the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a long-term research project that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry within higher education.
January 20 - Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Evaluation
Hiring, promotion, and tenure activities are full of risk and potential landmines. Poor hiring decisions are not only costly, but the hiring process itself opens the institution up to litigation if everyone on the hiring committee is not trained properly.
December 30 - Do College Students Spend Too Much Time on Facebook, YouTube and Other Social Networking Sites?
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
If you want to start a lively debate with your colleagues, just say one word: Facebook. You’re likely to hear many different arguments and at some point someone will declare that if students would spend less time on Facebook and other social networking sites they’d get better grades. Maybe, maybe not.
