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Overcoming Hurdles to Social Media in Education

April 1, 2013

Key Takeaways According to a recent study, 100 percent of colleges and universities surveyed use social media , but instructors use it far less for teaching than they do for per…

Beyond Clickers: Cloud-Based Tools for Deep, Meaningful Cognitive Engagement (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Building on a pilot experiment using Twitter and word clouds, we built ChimeIn, a simple, lightweight cloud-based application. ChimeIn lets learners weigh in on multiple choice and free response qu…

Twitter in Higher Education 2010: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty

October 5, 2010

The 2010 Faculty Focus survey of nearly 1,400 higher education professionals found that more than a third (35.2 percent) of the 1,372 respondents who completed the survey in July-August 2010 …

EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 3, 2010

September 22, 2010

Reflections on Play, Pedagogy, and World of Wa…

Leveraging Social and Mobile Technologies in Experiential Courses: #socstrat

June 3, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2010

This presentation's focus is on identifying best practices for designing experiential courses that incorporate social and mobile technologies. Experience-based courses often include elements o…

Twitter Symbiosis: A Librarian, a Hashtag, and a First-Year Seminar (Innovative Practice)

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Tweeting in the classroom has started to take off, with some notable examples such as Monica Rankin's history class experiment at UT-Dallas and Cole W. Camplese's classroom backchannel at…

Tweeting in Class

November 5, 2009

Should Twitter be viewed as a teaching tool or a distraction? Should Twitter be viewed as a teaching tool or a distraction? …

50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom

August 5, 2009

Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education . The creative ways Twitter users hav…

Learning Management Technologies: Enterprise System or Consumer Good?

November 5, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

This session will compare and contrast approaches in the use of learning management technologies in higher education: an enterprise model where a learning management system is centrally provided ve…

Disrespectful and Time-Wasting, or Engaged and Transformative? The Mile-High Twitter Debate

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Join in the Twitter debate with a no-holds-barred exploration of the issues. Engage and prepare to be challenged on both sides. Use Twitter while at the session, and analyze in real time whether th…