Leveraging Social Media
Starting to use social media tools like Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn or SlideShare if you’ve not used them before can be a hard road to walk. It isn’t necessarily about learning to use them but the feeling of learning to use them in an open space, where mistakes can be seen by everyone, could […]
Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2013
The Educause Centre for Applied Research (ECAR) has recently published their “ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2013” report. Key findings of the report: Students recognize the value of technology but still need guidance when it comes to better using it for academics. Students prefer blended learning environments while beginning to experiment with […]
Twitter for Teaching and Research
I recently began a Master’s degree in Digital Education with University of Edinburgh. The first module is Investigating Digital Environments for Learning, and one of the environments we looked as was Twitter. In a tutorial the course tutor, Prof Hamish McCleod, said that when he first encountered Twitter he just “didn’t get it”. I also […]
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