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Twitter usage in higher education

Professors Use Twitter to Increase Student Engagement and Grades

Keeping college students off social media sites and focused on the course material is a daily challenge for many of today’s college faculty. But what if you could harness the power of today’s technologies and students’ proclivity toward social networking to enhance the learning experience rather than distract from it?

Mary Bart January 18, 2011

Twitter in the College Classroom: Engaging Students 140 Characters at a Time

If it seems like everyone is tweeting these days, it’s not just your imagination.

In 2007 Twitter users, as a whole, made about 5,000 tweets a day. By 2008 the number had increased to 300,000 per day, before growing to 2.5 million per day in January 2009. Just one year later, in January 2010, the figure jumped to 50 million tweets per day.

Mary Bart July 28, 2010

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Twitter usage in higher education

Professors Use Twitter to Increase Student Engagement and Grades

Twitter in the College Classroom: Engaging Students 140 Characters at a Time

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