Joe Hicks CAP Project Spring 2014 Social Media in Higher Education Assignment/Class: Commentary Article for English

7730-Issues in Technical Communication Skills and knowledge displayed: This assignment allowed me to provide an overview of the positive impact social media has on higher education and the opportunities technical and professional communicators have to design content and train higher education professionals to enhance the usage of social media at the collegiate level. I provided an assessment of social media being used in higher education and gave examples of applications. I included the opinions of professionals that are using social media in education. Reading List: Chen, Y.C. (2011). Learning styles and adopting facebook technology. Technology Management in the Energy Smart World (PICMET), 2011 Proceedings of PICMET '1. Retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/ Moran, M., Seaman, J. & Tinti-Kane, H. (2011, April). Teaching, learning, and sharing: how todays higher education faculty use social media. Babson Survey Research Group. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED535130 Rios-Aguilar, C., Gonzalez, M.S., Deil-Amen, R., & Davis III, C.H.F. (2012). The role of social media in community colleges. The Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona and Claremont Graduate University. Retrieved from http://www.academia.edu Singleton, M. & Meloncon, L. (2011, June). A social media primer for technical communicators. Intercom. Retrieved from https://blackboard.ecu.edu Wankel, C. (2009). Management education using social media. Organization Management Journal, 6(4), 251-262. DOI: 10.1057/omj.2009.34 Wilson, C.D. (2013, August). Making connections: higher education meets social media. Change:The Magazine of Higher Learning, 45(4), 51-57. DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2013.806201 Constraints: 300-5000 words Technologies: I used Microsoft Word, the internet, and electronic databases for this assignment.