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May
29
2009

  • Using a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, the Rochester Institute of Technology developed a course around social computing. The course looks at how at how college students use social networking and whether it can enhance learning by bringing outside experts into the classroom via technology. The University of Michigan offers a master’s degree that specifically focuses on social computing, the first of its kind in the country at the master’s level.

  • “Colleges have to understand that it’s not about marketing, it’s about community building,” she said. “Only a handful of higher education institutions understand how much the Web has changed over the past two years. The thing that people have to understand is this is not a fad. It’s a new way of communicating.”

     

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