. Studenten sind nicht faul. Sie diskutieren auf hohem Niveau in Facebook-Gruppen statt im Hörsaal. Wir sollten sie dabei unterstützen, statt zu jammern. Mehr...
Should faculty be concerned with “Facebook Regret”?
By . According to faculty at various universities, there are two main ways that social networking sites are causing new concerns and considerations for faculty and institutions: frictionless sharing and context collapse. More...
Five Years
Then again, I now have a six-year-old and almost seven-year-old, and often, I can barely remember a time when I wasn’t a mother. And that’s not a bad thing, either. Read more...
Google searches on student aid 'less likely to be from low participation areas'
By . Young people in areas of high university participation are more likely to turn to Google for information about financial aid, a new study suggests. More...
29% des RH ont déjà recruté via les réseaux sociaux
RegionsJob propose les résultats de son enquête annuelle portant sur les pratiques de recrutement : les outils utilisés par les recruteurs pour trouver les bons candidats, les difficultés pour embaucher certains profils, le rôle des réseaux sociaux pour trouver des candidats...
Consulter les résultats complets de l'enquête. Voir l'article...
To Get Big, Start Really Small
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. To Get Big, Start Really Small
Tim Kastelle, The Discipline of Innovation, 2015/03/05
I think this post is a classic example of post hoc ergo propter hoc - "after this therefore because of this". Here's the argument: "Google didn’t start out by organising the world’s information. Google started out as a way to make searching the Stanford Library easier.... Facebook didn’t start out aiming to connect everyone in the world... It started out as a way for Harvard students to hook up." More...
EDUCAUSE and Social Media
By Joshua Kim. I’ve been a (friendly) critic of both the current EDUCAUSE website 3 Wishes for educause.edu, and of how EDUCAUSE has leveraged (or failed to leverage) social media beyond EDUCAUSE controlled channels for thought leadership in higher education - EDUCAUSE, Social Media, and Us. Read more...
Reaching students in a snap
New Social Network Is All College, All the Time
By Casey Fabris. Once upon a time, Facebook was reserved for college students only. A new social network is trying to reboot that idea, with a college-only service called Friendsy.
The service is the creation of two Princeton University undergraduates, Michael Pinsky and Vaidhy Murti, who hope to help facilitate connections among college students who might otherwise never meet. More...