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...
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Integrating Social Media into Online Education
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...
View ArticleTwitter Usage Among College Faculty is on the Rise
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...
View ArticleProfessors 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...
View ArticleSurvey Says 80 Percent of Faculty Use Social Media in Their Teaching
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...
View ArticleShould Professors Use Facebook to Communicate with Students?
Nearly 85% of faculty have a Facebook account, two-thirds are on LinkedIn, and 50% are on Twitter according to research from Faculty Focus. But, professors’ use of social media shows we are behind the...
View ArticleCollege Faculty Survey Finds Their Use of Social Media Has Evolved
New survey from Babson Survey Research Group and Pearson cites fewer barriers to adoption, with emphasis on video, blogs and wikis for instruction College faculty have evolved their use of social media...
View ArticleNew Survey: College Faculty Increasingly Use Social Media for Teaching and in...
A new report from the Babson Survey Research Group and Pearson finds that college faculty members have become sophisticated consumers of social media, matching different sites to their varying...
View ArticleUsing Social Media in the Classroom: Why There’s A Lot to Like
Are your students constantly updating their statuses on Facebook? Uploading selfies to Instagram at inappropriate times? Refreshing their Twitter feed every five seconds? Chances are the answer is...
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Bitmojis, Gifs, and Snaps in the Classroom? Oh My!
Trying new things and staying connected to students is of utmost importance for Deidre Price, PhD, director of Instructional Technology and Online Education at Northwest Florida State College, which...
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