when I first read the name of writing, I expect that there will be an extensive criticise about the role of technology in the field of education. However, after reading all the article I come up with the conclusion that this article just say what I think of before and now. "The state of being significance or not is totally depend on the purpose in your question"
By the way, do you really think our two smart classes (EF-01, EF-22) in faculty of education leads to significant difference on both teaching and learning?
Like many other arenas, to be a pioneer institution for OpenCourseWare Project, as METU members, we need to increase the number of high quality courses published and reach more learners as possible. In this process, METU Instructional Technology Support Office supports faculty members for developing course materials and publishing those materials on the Web.
80 percent of faculty use social media for some aspect of a course teaching, 20 percent of the students are assigned to comment on social media sites.
* Fun infographic shows changing educational habits under the effect of promises of technology
MIT Center for Mobile Learning, in colloboration with the MIT Media Lab encourages teachers and academic faculty to develop their own mobile apps to facilitate in education.
Academic avatars are getting more and more popular as the academic faculty becomes younger, more Internet savvy and avatar-ish. I'll also get my avatar asap!
In this link, you will find Pearson's report on social media use in higher education (2013). The report highlights which social media tools faculty members use for personal and professional reasons and their frequency.
Ceren, this link will be very helpful for us in the classroom discussion. Thank you for these detailed survey results. They explain the impact of social media in education, use of social media by different disciplines and by sites. It also gives information about concerns. Very explanatory survey results.