academics

I was interested to read the articles this week that had to do with the academic environment and social software. I'm interested in it for a number of reasons, particularly, because online communities are so ubiquitous and increasingly popular and I'm interested in how the academic environment is responding to this.

There were two articles this week that touched on the topic. Although Hewitt and Forte and Williams discuss student/faculty relationships, their findings, attitudes and messages are quite different.