Posts Tagged ‘Professors using Twitter’
January 18 - Professors Use Twitter to Increase Student Engagement and Grades
By: Mary Bart in Teaching and Learning, Trends in Higher Education
Keeping college students off social media sites and focused on the course material is a daily challenge for many of today’s college faculty. But what if you could harness the power of today’s technologies and students’ proclivity toward social networking to enhance the learning experience rather than distract from it?
September 17 - Twitter in Higher Education 2010: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Teaching with Technology
Is Twitter a powerful learning tool or a colossal waste of time? It depends whom you ask. In its second annual survey on the popular micro-blogging technology, Faculty Focus found a great divide in how professors perceive Twitter.
September 17 - Twitter Usage Among College Faculty is on the Rise
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
Results of our second annual survey on Twitter usage and trends in higher education are now available. The survey of nearly 1,400 college faculty members found that more than a third (35.2 percent) of the 1,372 respondents use Twitter in some capacity. That’s an increase from 30.7 percent in 2009.
July 28 - Twitter in the College Classroom: Engaging Students 140 Characters at a Time
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
If it seems like everyone is tweeting these days, it’s not just your imagination.
In 2007 Twitter users, as a whole, made about 5,000 tweets a day. By 2008 the number had increased to 300,000 per day, before growing to 2.5 million per day in January 2009. Just one year later, in January 2010, the figure jumped to 50 million tweets per day.
May 10 - Using Twitter to Enhance Collaborative Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Recently, college professors have begun discovering exciting ways to leverage Twitter to accomplish important learning and research goals. The possibilities are endless … all it takes is a little basic know-how, some creative ideas, and the willingness to try something new.
December 3 - Twitter in the Classroom: Studies Find Increased Student Engagement
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
With interest in Twitter on the rise, many instructors continue to grapple with the question of whether it has a place in the college classroom. And, if it does, what is the best, most effective way to use it? So perhaps it comes as no surprise that we’re starting to see studies on the use of Twitter in both traditional and online courses.
August 25 - Twitter in Higher Education 2009: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Teaching with Technology
A survey of approximately 2,000 higher education professionals found that 30.7 percent use Twitter. More than half (56.4 percent) say they’ve never used Twitter. This report examines how college faculty are using Twitter, and why some believe the micro-blogging service is a colossal waste of time.
