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Social Media Usage Trends Among Higher Education Faculty
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
Recent Seminars
How Administrators Can Avoid Social Media Landmines
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.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Professors Use Twitter to Increase Student Engagement and Grades
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?
Twitter in Higher Education 2010: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty
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.
Twitter in the College Classroom: Engaging Students 140 Characters at a Time
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.
Social Media Usage Among College Faculty
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.
Using Twitter to Enhance Collaborative Learning
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.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet
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.
Twitter in Higher Education 2009: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty
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.
