TLT at Franklin & Marshall

To Tweet or not to Tweet, that is the question.

Results are in from the survey conducted by Faculty Focus on Twitter usage and trends among college faculty, and we’d like to first thank everyone who participated. The survey of approximately 2,000 higher education professionals found that nearly one-third (30.7 percent) of the respondents say they use Twitter in some capacity. More than half, (56.4 percent) say they’ve never used Twitter.

This new 20-page report provides a breakdown of the survey results by question, including comments provided by survey respondents. The comments further explain how they are using Twitter, why they stopped, or why they have no interest in using it at all.

Key findings of Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty include:

• 71.8 percent of current Twitterers expect their usage to increase this school year.
• 20.6 percent of current non-Twitter users say there is a “50/50 chance” they will use Twitter as a learning tool in the classroom in the next two years.
• 12.9 percent of respondents say they tried Twitter, but stopped using it because it took too much time, they did not find it valuable, or a combination of reasons.

[Source: Faculty Focus]