Twitter was used in two large courses: ECON20401 \u2013 2nd Year UG Macroeconomics IIA \u2013 approx. 400 students (#BigMacII ) and ECON30611\u2013 3rd Year UG Macroeconomics IIIA (#Macro3A). In both courses course leader Paul Middleditch encouraged students to use Twitter to communicate with classmates or course unit director publicly and privately, encouraging in particular the use of Twitter for short communications such as posing questions that could be responded in 140 characters!<\/p>\n
Twitter was used across the length of the module with evaluation and student feeback to measure its effectiveness. In his final evaluation, Paul concluded that Twitter had proved to be an effective extension<\/em> to the VLE<\/p>\n Overall, Twitter proved to be effective in more than being a way to broadcast messages. Students used it as a platform to interact and learn from each other, especially the re-tweet function supported such peer communication. Finally, students used Twitter as a tool to feedback to the course unit director on how the course was going and to contribute to developments.<\/p>\n Aware of the potential reticence to the use of Twitter by academic colleagues, Paul used a presentation to an academic audience on this project to explore academic attitudes to the use of social media as a pedagogical tool. Paul asked the academic audience (before and after his presentation), their views of the effectiveness of Twitter to assist instructors in meeting four objectives:<\/p>\n Interestingly, the responses from participants on the usefulness of Twitter for teaching purposes changed over the course of the presentation.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_accordion _builder_version=”3.17.6″][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Benefits” open=”on” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Student Feedback” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n …very engaging with the students and creative. He was the only lecturer who used Twitter so efficiently and the introduction of the interaction lectures were by far the greatest motivation for me to come to lectures…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The twitter was also brilliant especially for clearer understanding. 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