April 13, 2011
by Clint
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Pearson has just released some new research on the social media habits of higher education faculty called Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media for Work and for Play. The impressive stat that pops out … Continue reading
April 11, 2011
by Clint
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Reading the results of the Going 24 Hours Without Media research has left me wondering exactly what it is students are craving for with their use of technology and media. Is it the technology they crave, or is it what … Continue reading
March 29, 2011
by Clint
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Just reading a piece of research by Kirsten A. Johnson from the Department of Communication at Elizabethtown College titled The effect of Twitter posts on students’ perception of instructor credibility (academic paywall) which illustrates some of the positive teaching benefits … Continue reading
February 3, 2011
by Clint
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Three academic studies are cited in this article about Twitter, and how it can increase student engagement, enhance social presence, and help develop peer support models among students through the formation of personal learning networks. Amplify’d from spotlight.macfound.org A small … Continue reading
January 25, 2011
by Clint
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I went through asynch discussion burnout during my Masters. 5 courses back to back where the main tool of interaction with classmates was an asynchronous discussion board. Some tips that I appreciated as a student – faculty limiting us to … Continue reading
January 15, 2011
by Clint
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Research on how a larger amygdala region in the brain may make it easier for some people to maintain a large social network. Amplify’d from www.theglobeandmail.com People with large, highly complex social networks tend to have larger amygdala regions than … Continue reading
December 22, 2010
by Clint
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Something is happening at my institution. I seem to be connecting with more of our faculty on Facebook and Twitter. Interest in blogging among faculty is growing, and every week I am hearing of another faculty person starting to blog … Continue reading
December 16, 2010
by Clint
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Delicious is dead. Er, sorry. Delicious is in the sunset column. I don’t know if I could write a better eulogy to Delicious than Marshall has at ReadWriteWeb. He hit on so many points and ways in which the service … Continue reading
December 4, 2010
by Clint
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A post by George Siemens on PLN’s earlier this week has really pushed my thinking about legitimate peripheral participation, lurking, and the differences between a learning network and a learning community with respect to social expectations and identity. I don’t … Continue reading
December 4, 2010
by Clint
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Academics are finding ways around paywalls to provide access to academic research for colleagues. That’s one of the findings of research conducted by Jason Priem and Kaitlin Light Costello of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on how … Continue reading