Posted by reyjunco on November 26, 2012 in
Infographic |
∞ My friends over at Project Information Literacy have just released this infographic to summarize their recent research on how college students find and use information. Data in this infographic come from PIL’s publications Balancing Act: How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library during Crunch Time and Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use [...]
Tags: college, education, higher education, infographic, information literacy, Research, students, teaching
Posted by reyjunco on October 23, 2012 in
Commentary,
Infographic,
Research |
∞ Last week, Pearson and the Babson Survey Research Group released the results of their latest survey of how higher education faculty use social media. The results are quite interesting. For instance, they found that almost 34% of the sample used some form of social media (defined as blogs/wikis, Facebook, LinkedIn, podcasts, or Twitter) for teaching purposes. It’s [...]
Tags: education, facebook, infographic, social media, teaching, twitter
Posted by reyjunco on June 22, 2012 in
Presentations |
∞ Back in March I served on a panel along with Liz Gross, Ed Cabellon, and Greg Heiberger at the #sxswEDU conference. Here are some of the highlights: Greg and I talk about our latest research on using Twitter to support students throughout their first year of college. I summarize my recent research on using Facebook in education. Greg [...]
Tags: #sxswEDU, academic, education, facebook, higher education, presentation, students, sxsw, teaching, twitter
Posted by reyjunco on March 21, 2012 in
Infographic,
Research |
∞ Almost a year ago, I posted a call to collaborate with graphic designers interested in creating research-based infographics. If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know that I’ve been fortunate to work with a number of graphic designers who have converted my research into infographics. Here is yet another one in this series. [...]
Tags: academic, best practices, education, engagement, infographic, outcomes, publications, Research, social media, teaching, twitter
Posted by reyjunco on February 21, 2012 in
Commentary |
∞ For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, this post is very different than what you are accustomed to seeing here. While I usually keep my posts professional (I’ve often joked that writing for my blog is like writing mini journal articles), this post is incredibly personal. I’ve been thinking about writing [...]
Tags: academic, education, jobs, search, teaching
Posted by reyjunco on February 13, 2012 in
Research |
∞ A while ago I posted about the proposal Game dynamics in the classroom: Badges to improve student engagement and learning in large lecture courses we submitted to the Digital Media and Learning Badges for Learning competition. We were delighted to see how much buzz our proposal generated online (here’s a post on Edudemic about our proposal [...]
Tags: badges, engagement, game dynamics, learning, methods, Research, retention, social media, teaching, technology
Posted by reyjunco on January 17, 2012 in
Research |
∞ Over the last year, I’ve conducted or collaborated on a number of studies examining the use of social media in the classroom. One thing has been clear from our observations in those studies: when given the choice of a number of social technologies to use as part of a course, students will overwhelmingly choose Facebook. This [...]
Tags: academic, college, engagement, facebook, higher education, Research, social media, teaching, texting, twitter
Posted by reyjunco on January 12, 2012 in
Research |
∞ Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about using badging systems to support student learning. There is great potential for using badging systems to add a game layer to learning in the traditional classroom, thereby increasing student engagement and learning outcomes. Last year at SxSWi, Seth Priebatsch from SCVNGR gave a keynote (video) about adding a game layer [...]
Tags: badges, game dynamics, lbs, learning, location based services, methods, Research, SCVNGR, students, teaching, technology
Posted by reyjunco on December 6, 2011 in
Research |
∞ I’m very excited that yet another graphic designer has taken me up on my offer to work with me on creating a graphic that accurately represents the results of one of my research papers. This one is based on my paper Too much face and not enough books: The relationship between multiple indices of Facebook use [...]
Tags: academic, college, data, education, facebook, higher education, infographic, publications, Research, students, teaching
Posted by reyjunco on October 10, 2011 in
Research |
∞ My latest paper Too much face and not enough books: The relationship between multiple indices of Facebook use and academic performance published in Computers in Human Behavior last week reports the findings of a study I conducted with 1,839 undergraduates. I collected data on Facebook use by surveying students and I had access to student grades [...]
Tags: academic, digital media, facebook, higher education, outcomes, publications, Research, social media, students, teaching
Social Media in Higher Education
