Posts Tagged ‘Twitter usage’
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.
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.
