A couple of years ago, I was teaching at Eton in the UK, and needed to get back to my hotel in Reading. I was placed efficiently in an Eton taxi and sent on my way. Unfortunately, my driver knew generally where Reading was, but not how to navigate to my hotel. I could provide.
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Interesting that 62.6% of respondents use social for informal learning, but only 26.4% use it to support formal learning. This get to one of my key issues: we need to formalize the relationship between traditional institutions and emerging learning opportunities and the technology that supports them. Educators need to keep up with the latest technology.
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Hear is an early result from my social media in higher education survey. It shows that face-2-face meeting continue as the preferred way to interact with instructors, followed by e-mail, then Facebook. If you haven’t taken they survey yet, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/higheredsocialmedia or http://tinyurl.com/45p44mo Please tell your friends, your instructors and your fellow students via.
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