Posts Tagged ‘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.
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.
January 20 - Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Evaluation
Hiring, promotion, and tenure activities are full of risk and potential landmines. Poor hiring decisions are not only costly, but the hiring process itself opens the institution up to litigation if everyone on the hiring committee is not trained properly.
December 30 - Do College Students Spend Too Much Time on Facebook, YouTube and Other Social Networking Sites?
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
If you want to start a lively debate with your colleagues, just say one word: Facebook. You’re likely to hear many different arguments and at some point someone will declare that if students would spend less time on Facebook and other social networking sites they’d get better grades. Maybe, maybe not.
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 - Eight Ways to Support Faculty Needs with a Virtual Teaching & Learning Center
By: Kathleen MacDonald in Faculty Development
Teaching and learning support professionals, particularly those who must perform miracles as a “Department of One,” can have one of the most challenging jobs on campus. They not only support the course design, content delivery strategies, technology integration, and training/orientation for faculty and students in online learning programs (asynchronous and synchronous formats), but they also support all other teaching/learning needs for classroom, blended, and any other teaching environment. This professional may be an instructional designer, an educational technologist, or very often, a designated faculty member with some or all of these skills.
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.
June 17 - Using Twitter to Facilitate Classroom Discussions
By: Mary Bart in Effective Teaching Strategies
As a history major I usually found most of my history courses pretty interesting. Certainly some were more interesting than others but I think a lot of that had more to do with the instructor than the content. Of course not every student who takes a history class course plans to major in it, which is why I love it when I hear about a history professor (or any educator for that matter) doing innovative things to engage students in one of those “core courses” many students often dread.
