Posts Tagged ‘Twitter in higher education’
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.
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 13 - Social Media Usage Among College Faculty
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
A survey developed to determine how many college faculty are using social media, and in what capacity, found widespread awareness of social networks, but faculty are more likely to use social networking tools for personal use than in the classroom.
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.
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.
August 28 - Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
Results are in from the Faculty Focus survey on Twitter usage and trends among college faculty. The survey of approximately 2,000 higher education professionals found that nearly one-third (30.7 percent) of the 1,958 respondents say they use Twitter in some capacity. More than half, (56.4 percent) say they’ve never used Twitter.
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.
