Faculty Views on Social Networking and Web 2.0
May 17, 2007
Today, Thomson Publishing, an academic publishing company, released the results of a survey they conducted using more than 600 college professors. The findings showed that majority of professors don’t use social networking sites and Web 2.0 tools for instructional purposes, although they are familiar with some of these sites. More results are at the following website but unfortunately they didn’t publish complete results.
http://www.thomson.com/content/pr/tl/tl_high_ed/New_Media_Tools_Faculty_Survey
One thing I found interesting was number of faculty members who have their own blogs (10 percent) are not that different from general population (US) who have blogs (8 percent).
This is the title of an article by Bryan Alexander:
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0621.pdf
He does a good job in explaining the relationship between social software and web 2.0 but of course neither directly refers to the open source.
Here is another good read on the same topic:
