Blog Educpros de Jean-Michel Zakhartchouk. La mode est aux tweets et aux messages type Facebook sentencieux et définitifs ou outranciers, renforcés par une typographie insupportable et parfois des fonds de couleur agressifs. Il est demandé de réagir vite et lorsque la réponse à telle déclaration, à tel évènement, semble tarder, on interpelle la personne concernée sur son absence de réaction. Suite...
Experimenting with alternative social networks
Experimenting with alternative social networks
D’Arcy Norman, D’Arcy Norman Dot Net, 2016/12/05
As readers know, I dropped out of Facebook at the end of the summer. It felt lonely but it was a good move - the people who were missing my posts on Facebook came back, and viewership on downes.ca went from the 25K per month it had averaged to more like 40K per month. More...
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn, 2016/12/05
I think this is a pretty important development. LinkedIn has been collecting professional and resum data through its social network service for a number of years and is now marketing its learning services. More...
Switching on to social media matters on clearing day
Universities aren’t just manning phonelines for clearing – as a way of appealing to text-happy, talk‑phobic students, they’re also opening up social media channels. More...
Cambridge University - Crushing It on Social Media
By Eric Stoller. At 10:17AM on November 9, 2016, Cambridge University tweeted out a single emoji. The "neutral face" emoji was anything but neutral on the morning after the most-recent US presidential election. More...
First Seven Weeks on Social Media
By Eric Stoller. In the United States, first year experience (FYE) initiatives are plentiful. The rationale for these programs is fairly straightforward. More...
10 Questions About Social Media and Digital Transformation
By Eric Stoller. At last month's Tribal SITS Conference in Wales, the digital transformation panel received more questions than it had time to answer. Receiving a plethora of queries from conference attendees via the web, I joined Jayne Aldridge, Executive Director of AMOSSHE / Director of Services for Students Kingston University and Andrew Meikle, Head of Corporate Information Systems at Lancaster University, to answer a variety pack of questions pertaining to all things digital plus higher education. More...
Friday Fragments - September 14, 2017
Twitter Blowback: Lost Job and Lost Money
By Scott Jaschik. Montclair State strips adjunct of courses amid controversy over tweet wishing someone would shoot Trump. Trinity of Connecticut details students and gifts lost amid furor over professor's hashtag. More...
Greek Life Split
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University of Colorado Boulder is adding back fraternities after 12 years without them, but not the existing network of unaffiliated chapters -- but two new ones, creating a potentially odd dynamic. More...