How College Professors Use Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

Social media is playing a bigger role in college education more than ever before. In fact, college professors actually social media! A recent Pearson survey of nearly 2,000 college faculty shows that just about all college professors use social media and that most of them even use it to teach! Check out these interesting statistics on how social media is successfully on its way to becoming a new teaching tool:

• 91% of college faculty engage in social media as part of work; 47% of employees in other industries do

• 80% of faculty use social media for some aspect of a course they are teaching

• More than 40% of faculty have required students to read or view social media as part of an assignment

• 30% of faculty have posted content for students to view or read outside of class

• 20% of faculty have assigned students to comment on or post to social media sites

• The most popular social networks that are most popular among college teachers, both professionally and personally, are Facebook,YouTube, and LinkedIn

How do you utilize social networking sites in the classroom? Do you use video, podcasts, and/or blogs as teaching tools?

-Lauren