Using social networks at university: The case of school of computer science

Author

Sanchez, Jose L. ; Gonzalez, C.S. ; Alayon, S. ; Gonzalez, P.

Author_Institution

Escuela Tec. Super. de Ing. Inf., Univ. de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

13-15 March 2013

Firstpage

492

Lastpage

496

Abstract

At present, not all of the universities understands the usefulness of social networks for teaching and working insertion. However, both the teachers and the students make use of them. In USA, 100% of the universities make use of social networks in some way. The most widely used social network among American students is Facebook (98%), followed by Twitter (84%) and Linkedin (47%). In this paper, different uses of social networks in education and working insertion at School of Computer Science of University of La Laguna will be described (educational use, work insertion and social media).

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational institutions; social networking (online); Facebook; Linkedin; Twitter; USA; University of La Laguna; computer science school; educational use; social media; social network; work insertion; Conferences; Engineering education; Social Media; Social Networking for Education; Social Networks; Work Insertion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Berlin

ISSN

2165-9559

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6111-8

Electronic_ISBN

2165-9559

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530151

Filename

6530151