Gone Social. Top 40 Colleges That Facebook. Facebook is the most popular social network on the Internet with more than 200 million active users worldwide. Facebook started in 2004 as a site for college students to socially interact in a virtual setting—but the site has since advanced to a popular online destination used by web users of all ages—and consequentially morphed into a new marketing channel for organizations. One chief niche of Facebook marketers are higher education institutions. Colleges and universities use this online platform to engage with students and stakeholders, spread word of news and events happening on campus, infect fans with school spirit and market their campus to prospective students. Academic institutions have embraced this 2.0 technology all in hopes of getting to the pulse of student conversation and luring individuals to consider enrolling in their school.
Here is my list of the top colleges that Facebook in America: Thumbs up: University of Texas at Austin’s Facebook fan page offers rich multimedia. Social and Mobile Media Statistics for Higher Education. How colleges use, misuse social media to reach students. Johns Hopkins University has an interactive site with blogs and videos by current students for prospective students. Universities are reaching out to engage with applicants on Facebook and TwitterExpert: Colleges should make their social media interactions personalStudent: "Why have a Twitter account if you only have four tweets in the past few months? "Survey: 98% of colleges have a Facebook page; 84% have a Twitter account (CNN) -- It was a joyous day for Lucie Fink when she received her acceptance letter from Johns Hopkins University.
Like most prospective students, she wanted to know exactly what she was getting into before she made her decision between schools. So she went to the Web to get her answers. "There were all these kids that were so passionate about sharing their experience," Fink said. Daniel Creasy, the associate director of admissions and one of the people behind Hopkins Interactive, believes that it provides an uncensored look at the school. Top social media colleges. Putting student engagement at the heart of HE - live chat best bits | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. Reynol Junco, professor in academic development and counselling, Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania, USA Define engagement: You can ask just about any instructor to tell you who their most engaged students are, and they will be able to do it. However, it's not clear that their definitions of engagement will be the same. I define engagement as: "The time and effort students invest in educational activities that are empirically linked to desired college outcomes".
Using engagement measurement tools: I have used a modified version of the National Survey of Student Engagement to measure engagement in my research. More recently, I have been developing a coding manual to measure behavioural indices of engagement in the classroom. I've seen researchers use a few other ways to measure engagement such as evaluating how much time students spend on a task, assessing the time they spend using learning technologies, the number of times they ask a question in class. A few recent papers on this topic: 6a00e54fd9f05988330153928e5a3b970b-pi 960×9160 pixels.