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AI in higher ed admissions. "With Bolt, enrollment managers and marketers can focus their attention on prospects who are more likely to enroll, conserving time and effort for resource-strapped schools hit hard by the pandemic. Bolt uses behavioral data, which is 20 times more predictive than artificial intelligence that relies on demographics alone."

This study examines how imagined surveillance influence college students' self-presentation across social media platforms. This may be one of the readings related to privacy issues as we cover this week in EME6414.

Great research article on Web 2.0 tools and student learning. From 2013 so fairly recent - Aditi Pai, Spelman College Jim Stenerson, Pace University Michael Gaines, University of Miami Introduction It is well documented over the years that technology has impacted education and changed the landscape of teaching and learning. For the most part information technology has been credited with making teaching and learning an active and engaging process for both the students and the faculty (Redecker et al 2009).

This takes the popular Inspiration concept/mind mapping one step further : Designed for professionals and college students, WebspirationPRO™ is a visual thinking and cloud-computing productivity tool, dedicated to promoting success in a knowledge-based society. WebspirationPRO gives you everything you need to brainstorm ideas, organize information, solve problems, plan projects, write, study and communicate more effectively. With WebspirationPRO, work is always available and securely stored online.

This article focuses on how college students evaluate information on social media. It also included an investigation of whether students use social media for their coursework and which tools they prefer. Finally, the authors surveyed students regarding metaliteracy topics, such ast their knowledge of copyright & fair use and privacy. Overall, the study found that students are moderately aware of and concerned with the credibility and accuracy of information, but are far more concerned with privacy issues. Understanding of legal issues associated with the re-use of information was rather low, and even less knowledge of cyber crimes.

author: George Ligon IV I recently read an article about a study on college students use of Youtube to support academic learning. According to Alexa (2015), Youtube is the third most visited website in the world (as cited by Moghavvemi, Sulaiman, Jaafar, & Kasem, 2018). The study explored students' usage and their perceptions of Youtube's effectiveness as an academic learning tool. Out of 312 respondents 71% stated they used Youtube for academic learning purposes (Moghavvemi, Sulaiman, Jaafar, & Kasem, 2018). According to Moghavvemi et al. (2018), 76% of respondents stated they used Youtube to learn how to solve problems, 77% used it to answer questions, and 83% used it to watch videos that were suggested by friends. In addition to this, Moghavvemi et al. (2018), reported 70.5% of respondents believed they learned more from watching Youtube than reading a book. Thus, the findings supported previous studies which found using videos to teach was an effective tool to enhance academic performance (Moghavvemi, Sulaiman, Jaafar, & Kasem, 2018). References Moghavvemi, S., Sulaiman, A., Jaafar, N. I., & Kasem, N. (2018, March). Social media as a complementary learning tool for teaching and learning: the case of youtube. The international journal of management education. 16(1), 37-42. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1472811717303051

Download full PDF from FSU Library database. Students from American College of Norway, the University of North Dakota, and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa came together through technology with the objective to have engage in a dialogue on topics such as like world peace, sustainable peace and global citizenship. Students were using this as an opportunity to connect to one another. Students were excited for the opportunity to engage, they had exposure to great speakers (digitally) and materials. They were connected to one another via online channels. Students answered questions on a blog and on Facebook, and although at first the answers may have been surface level, eventually student answers became more sophisticated. The study concludes by acknowledging the value of studying abroad, but recognizing that not all students have the opportunity to do so. Some of the value of study abroad is the exposure to culture and enhanced desire to learn, with technology it is possible to help students develop a passion for learning and create a sense of understanding for global issues.

Tess (2013) provides a great review of the literature on the role of social media in the higher education context. Tess (2013) suggests that as instructors look for ways to incorporate technology to mediate and enhance their instructions as well as promote active learning among students, they increasingly turn to different social media tools. The author argues that the current literature on the integration of social media in higher education are limited to self-reported data and content analyses. Therefore, he provides a summary of literature on the role of social media in the higher education classroom as well as discusses their limitations. Various studies (cited below) explored the role of social media and SNSs in different contexts of education -teaching learning process. These studies have demonstrated interesting and useful results. Tess (2013), in addition to keyword-specific searches, used a "snowball" method for finding the articles from the relevant articles cited in the literature reviewed. To narrow the range of the review, he chooses articles on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, blog and LinkedIn. Tess (2013) provides a brief definition of each of these five SNSs. He also looks at the social impact of these popular SNS tools. The author looks at the factors motivating the educators to use social media in higher education classrooms, such as: the changing nature of the student, the changing knowledge consumption relationship, and the de-emphasis of institutionally provided learning and emergence of "user-driven" education (Selwyn, 2010). The author provides platform-specific affordances and drawbacks in terms of their application in the higher education space. Tess (2013) argues that although the infrastructure to support social media's presence exists in most universities today, instructors have been slow in adopting the tool as an educational one. Those who are adopting are still likely in the experimental stage. He admits that his literature rev