Online Learning Update

January 22, 2012

Online Learning: Shy students should be able to tweet their teacher in class, study finds

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:08 am

by: Jeremy Pierce, The Courier-Mail

Students who don’t have the confidence to speak out in class can benefit from Twitter, a study has found. There could soon be a whole lot more twits in our school classrooms. New research from Southern Cross University has found strong benefits for the use of Twitter by students too embarrassed or uncomfortable to ask teachers questions in the time-honoured raised-hand method. Southern Cross business lecturer Jeremy Novak, along with Central Queensland University’s Dr Michael Cowling, studied the use of Twitter among university students as a method for asking questions and gaining feedback without having to stand the stares and scrutiny of fellow students. The positive feedback from students, particularly international students, has convinced the research team the use of Twitter technology could also be embraced by classrooms at high school and even primary school level.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/technology/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/story-fn5kfsdd-1226244868289

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