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Researchers investigated the impact of podcasting on student motivation in the online environment during fall 2008 and spring 2009. Data were collected from students enrolled in fourteen online courses at a research university in the United States. One hundred and ninety-one students completed a modified version of the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (); it has four subscales: attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Strong positive relationships between all subscales were detected. Results indicate students were moderately motivated by the use of podcasts in their online courses. Only available to Butler

This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation

"According to research by Harris Interactive, that was commissioned by CareerBuilder.com and surveyed 2,667 HR professionals, found that 45% of them use social networking sites to research job candidates, with an additional 11% planning to implement social media screening in the very near future."

First of Chronicle Research Services 3 part report on our students in 2020

I disagree with this article - first, there isn't sufficient data, and I think it all depends in how Twitter is used. I tend to think of Twitter as more of a collection space of ideas and links. What I think is flawed in the research is that Twitter doesn't provide context (source of previous knowledge) or sufficient data for the brain to chunk or organize. I think the author is comparing the effectiveness of a wrench and a hammer while viewing a nail.

I disagree with this article - first, there isn't sufficient data, and I think it all depends in how Twitter is used. I tend to think of Twitter as more of a collection space of ideas and links. What I think is flawed in the research is that Twitter doesn't provide context (source of previous knowledge) or sufficient data for the brain to chunk or organize. I think the author is comparing the effectiveness of a wrench and a hammer while viewing a nail.

Includes a comparison chart (Diigo, Delicious, Browser) and a high level overview of Diigo (including screenshots). According to Ruffini, Diigo "fosters research-sharing and collaboration in new ways. Not only can students bookmark, organize, and collaborate on various projects and research, but this service gives them - and teachers - the opportunity to organize and manage web resources and documents. Diigo has useful educational applications, as well, such as organizing bookmarks for resources and research, collaborative learning, and professional development."

University of California is hoping to become the nation's first top-tier research institution to offer a bachelor's degree over the Internet comparable in quality to its prestigious campus program

Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.

"As Educators we use Digital Storytelling in many ways, from introducing new material to helping students learn to conduct research, synthesize large amounts of content and gain expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools. It also can help students organize these ideas as they learn to create stories for an audience, and present their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful way."

This website, hosted by the Learning Technology Center in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, is designed to be a central point of access to the wide range of research, projects, and other resources related to the use of mobile technologies in learning environments.

I don't think the Kindle is the panacea of access as this article suggests - some healthy collection development in prior years may have made the device less of a "savior" for research. "We have to work with what we have" is a cop-out, in my opinion. What do you think?

eBook research

The StudentAdvisor.com research team continuously collects information on how active and effective each school is at engaging their audiences on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media tools, such as iTunes and podcasts. The ranking methodology also takes into account the size of each school's population, as well as other metrics, to gauge overall reach and effectiveness. The team then produces a strictly quantitative score for each school based on this information, and updates the findings regularly.

British researchers scanned the brains of 125 college students who used Facebook, then compared the scans with the number of online and real-world friends the students had. Findings show people with more friends have certain areas of the brain that are larger than those with fewer friends, but the link is not clear.

""This study firmly shows that continued technological education throughout a teacher's career is vital to providing students with the skills they will need for future careers," said Anne Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association. "This survey shows that school boards need to be as intentional and purposeful as possible in supporting increased technology integration in schools.""

gives some data on how much social media is being used by reporters

On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.