Posts Tagged ‘social media campus trends’
September 26 - Understanding the Potential Pitfalls of Social Media
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
Whether it’s the professor who creates Twitter backchannels in his courses, the admissions counselor who uses Facebook to engage prospective students, or the librarian who tweets about available resources in the library, higher education professionals have come up with a variety of creative ways to use social media both in and outside of the classroom.
September 13 - Social Media Usage Trends Among Higher Education Faculty
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Teaching with Technology
Survey finds faculty divided on social media in the classroom Social Media Usage Trends Among Higher Education Faculty The popularity of social media and its rapid ascension into our daily lives is nothing short of astounding. Sites that weren’t even around 10 years ago are now visited every day. What’s more, 56 percent of the
July 8 - How Administrators Can Avoid Social Media Landmines
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Social media, while rich in pedagogical opportunity, are also fraught with risks that no institution, faculty member or administrator can afford to ignore. This seminar will show you how to protect yourself from the potential pitfalls.
April 22 - Survey Says 80 Percent of Faculty Use Social Media in Their Teaching
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
More than 80 percent of college faculty use some form of social media in their teaching, with online video by far the most popular application, according to a new survey from the Babson Survey Research Group and Pearson. The results were presented early this month during Cite 2011, Pearson’s 12th annual higher education technology conference.
February 7 - FERPA and Social Media
By: John Orlando, PhD in Teaching with Technology
FERPA is one of the most misunderstood regulations in education. It is commonly assumed that FERPA requires all student coursework to be kept private at all times, and thus prevents the use of social media in the classroom, but this is wrong. FERPA does not prevent instructors from assigning students to create public content as part of their course requirements. If it did, then video documentaries produced in a communications class and shown on TV or the Web, or public art shows of student work from an art class, would be illegal. As one higher education lawyer put it:
January 26 - ‘Here We Are Now, Entertain Us’—Student Motivation and Technology
By: John Orlando, PhD in Teaching with Technology
George Stanton, a professor emeritus of biology, recently expressed his disappointment with student response to social media elements in classes. He pointed out that students were less than active in using the tools, meanwhile a recent survey of first-year students at his institution found that the number one expectation for class was “to be entertained.”
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.
September 8 - Integrating Social Media into Online Education
By: John Orlando, PhD in Online Education, Teaching with Technology
Many people take it on faith that online education must be run through a learning management system (LMS) like Blackboard, Angel, etc. Those systems were originally designed to allow faculty to move their courses online without having to learn HTML coding. They provided all of the tools needed to deliver an online course in one package.
May 27 - College Students Unplugged: 24 Hours without Media Brings Feelings of Boredom, Isolation, Anxiety
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
College students who abstained from using media for 24 hours describe their feelings in terms more commonly associated with drug and alcohol addictions: In withdrawal, Frantically craving, Very anxious, Extremely antsy, Miserable, Jittery, Crazy.
