Posted by reyjunco on January 30, 2012 in
Commentary |
∞ Over at Wired, Tim Carmody wrote a great piece about Apple’s latest foray into the education market – digital textbooks via the iBooks 2 app. Tim hits the nail on the head in his introduction (emphasis mine): Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It’s one of the [...]
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Posted by reyjunco on April 12, 2010 in
Research |
∞ The following is a summary of findings from a paper that will be published soon in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. For the analyses, we used logistic and hierarchical linear regression to examine the results of a survey of 4,491 students from four universities. Here’s what we found: Cell phone ownership The odds that female [...]
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Posted by reyjunco on July 28, 2009 in
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∞ Brunel eLearning 2.0 Keynote Slides View more presentations from Rey Junco.
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Social Media in Higher Education
Will iTextbooks increase student engagement? Not really.
Over at Wired, Tim Carmody wrote a great piece about Apple’s latest foray into the education market – digital textbooks via the iBooks 2 app. Tim hits the nail on the head in his introduction (emphasis mine): Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It’s one of the [...]
Tags: apple, commentary, digital divide, digital media, education, ibooks, itextbooks, opinion