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Article about incorporating social media into courses.

Interesting information regarding usage of Twitter in higher education

Latest stats on online learning in the U.S., including number of students enrolled, percentage of faculty supporting online courses, and growth rates for the past 10 years.

Research on how faculty in higher education use social media.

Teaching online, learning, distance education, Faculty club on TeachingOntheNet, your source for information and professional development on teaching by LERN

"Social media is crucial not only because it provides a fast way to share information, but also because it makes faculty workloads more transparent." This is a great article for those considering ways to share the wonderful work and achievement of both faculty and students. Karen Patterson

Nice study of how higher ed faculty view social media in and outside of class. Easy to read comparison charts. Study does include video and podcasts as social media on top of networking sites.

Website that publishes effective teaching strategies for the online classroom

Special Report prepared by Faculty Focus. Survey on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn usage in higher education. Facebook was most popular social media site of those surveyed. Survey showed a divide between those who embraced social media and those who have not.

his article documents a faculty development model that has successfully helped faculty overcome reluctance to design and teach online courses.

We are the disrupters.

An interesting piece on effective use of technology by instructors from the students' perspective.

Capstones, the cumulative, large-scale projects that two-thirds of students seeking bachelor's degrees complete, can carry some heavy expectations. They are seen by many faculty members and administrators as a way to demonstrate the academic rigor of higher education. Such projects require a lot of time and effort, often lasting for more than a semester, and demand substantial intellectual work.

Scroll down to see the virtual activity example posted here. I really appreciated this, as it is visual and interesting and goes well beyond a typical discussion board or written response.

Special Reports Faculty members experiment with artificial intelligence in the classroom Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today Last spring, Ashok K. Goel pulled off one of the great pranks in the history of artificial intelligence. In an online course, Mr. Goel, a computer-science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, relied on nine teaching assistants, including...

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. Search peer reviewed open educational resources (OER), create Course ePortfolios, Bookmark Collections, and Learning Exercises, and build your own learning materials with our Content Builder.

What you can do, Tips for Faculty in Higher Education

Over 100 third-party tools and services are used by faculty and students in ASU Online courses. Collaborative partnerships are formed in order to explore ways to use the technology to improve online teaching and learning experiences.

The faculty at my college have been discussing this current article that discusses how "at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress in four years." To read Part 2 of the article copy and paste this link into the URL: http://chronicle.com/article/A-Perfect-Storm-in/126969/

College course work is meant to be challenging. The content and the vocabulary used are often unfamiliar to many students. For at-risk learners, the challenges are even greater.

By KATIE DAWSON, Indiana Daily Student The Indiana University eText initiative has saved 5,300 IU students as much as $100,000 by allowing professors to select eTexts instead of traditional textbooks to teach in class. eTexts first became available for faculty to consider for classes in September 2011 but are now available for all classes to use this spring semester.