Social Media and Higher Education

Educause Conference

I just got back from the Educause conference in Austin 2012, the emerging topics according to the new horizon report in one year or less is mobile apps and tablet computing, two to three years is game-based learning and learning analytics and four to five years out is gesture based computing and internet of things. Here is the report:
New Horizons Report 2012

Social Media

Social Media is what people are saying about you, your product and your institution. For example, Twitter is useful for "following" key contributors in your field and for research and trending purposes. Key tips for twitter include update your biography to personalize your twitter account and create hastags (#) for each event, workshop, production or class topic.

I am wondering how faculty is going to use Social Media in Online Learning, view the short video, do you agree with the statistics presented?

Social Media Debate

Class,

This week we are on e-blogger to discuss on our next assignment. In the face to face class we will be covering Web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, Google Sites, Blogs and Wikis. To see how a blog works, read the article on Social Media in Blackboard Week 4 folder, watch the video and post what you find most interesting about Social Media tools and the research behind it.

Here is a short video on social media, do you agree with it?



Looking forward to your posts!!

Online Learning In Higher Education

This blog is intended to be a collection of faculty's online experiences at American University. The spring faculty can post best practices, pedagogical issues and things that did not work quite as expected.