Social Networking for Engagement and Retention
With all the recent talk about using social networking to increase student engagement on college campuses, schools are scrambling to find data to support spending time, money, and effort on implementing new strategies that involve tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Here is a collection of recent research.
Using Social Networking to Increase Student Retention
Selected Research on Social Networking from Emily Dalton Smith (Director of Student Engagement at ASU Online), and Michael Staton (CEO and Co-Founder of Inigral, Inc.). This was derived from a poster presentation that ASU and Inigral presented at Educause 2009.
Highlights from the 2009 Community College Survey of Student Engagement
The Center for Community College Student Engagement has released their 2009 Survey results, and the winner is….social networking. This year, the survey focused on the importance of building relationships – among students, faculty, staff, and with the institution, itself. What they found was that “personal connections are the unanticipated success factor – a critical variable [...]
