Why This Professor Is Encouraging Facebook Use in His Classroom
Facebook and academe aren’t exactly friends. Over the years, the social-media company has been the source of ethically questionable research, the purveyor of uncomfortable teacher-student interactions,...
View ArticleThat’s Not #Funny: Higher Ed’s Least Clever Twitter Accounts
Earlier this month, a puckish Twitter user going by the handle @ProfJeffJarvis managed to provoke two actual professors into fits of outrage. Rurick Bradbury, the technology entrepreneur who runs the...
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Responding to Offensive Posts on Yik Yak, Professors Stage Social-Media Takeover
At the end of a semester plagued by offensive social-media posts, professors at Colgate University on Friday started a campaign to bring some positivity to digital communications on the campus. Using...
View ArticleHow to Ruin a Date With an Academic in 5 Words
Academic life can be lonely. Professors, postdocs, and doctoral students spend their lives holed up in libraries, labs, and lecture halls, becoming intimate with words and ideas that are liable to...
View ArticleFacebook Addiction and GPA
Facebook is a tempting distraction. I have it open as a tab in my browser as I write this. And look, it’s showing that I have a new notification! I must see it, immediately. Facebook designed the site...
View Article3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu
Austin, Tex. — Student privacy, easier-to-use digital tools for instructors, and efforts to offer alternative credentials were some of the most-talked-about topics this week at the South by Southwest...
View ArticleHow Social Media Helps Students Adapt to College
For today’s students, social media isn’t just a diversion. It’s a support system. That’s the key finding of a paper exploring the role that Facebook plays in helping students adjust to campus life....
View ArticleProfessor Says Facebook Can Help Informal Learning
Who says Facebook is always a distraction? A new study suggests that if engaged in online debate, college students can use the popular social network to learn and develop a variety of skills. In a...
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Researchers Open Repository for ‘Dark Data’
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are leading an effort to create a one-stop shop for data sets that would otherwise be lost to the public after the papers they were...
View ArticleCall for Nominations: Who Are the Top Tech Innovators in Higher Education?
Each year The Chronicle profiles key innovators who are tackling big challenges facing campuses with the help of technology. And we’re looking for your suggestions. The goal of the project is to look...
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