Online Learning Update

July 21, 2010

Study Finds No Link Between Online Social-Networking Sites and Learning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Kelly Truong, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Researchers at Northwestern University found no connection between time spent on social-networking sites and academic performance. The study, the results of which appear in the latest issue of Information, Communication & Society, included responses from approximately 1,000 first-year students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Sites such as Facebook and MySpace had no effect on grades, despite how often students used them or how many they used.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Study-Finds-No-Link-Between/25541/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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