Eighty Percent of College Faculty Teach Using Social Media

Another interesting figure from the survey is that more than 40 percent of faculty say they require students to read or view social media as part of a course assignment, and 20 percent assign students to comment or post to social media sites.

College faculty are twice as likely as other industry workers to be using social media as part of their job, and more than 80 percent of faculty are using some form of social media in their teaching, according to a new survey from the Babson Survey Research Group and Pearson.

The survey of approximately 2,000 faculty found that over 90 percent of college faculty use social media in the workplace, while other industries are 47 percent of employees use social media.

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