Technology

Professors implement social media to further learning experience

Ben Lippert Although social media receives a bad reputation for academics, one professor embraced it as a teaching tool. Social media has been blamed for classroom distractions and bad study habits. One professor at SDSU thinks Twitter has educational benefits. Greg Heiberger is the coordinator of pre-health professional programs in SDSU’s biology and microbiology department. [...]

D2L mandate a possibility

Hannah BakerNews Editor Currently, SDSU professors are not required to use the internet information program Desire2Learn with their classes. This may soon change. The South Dakota Board of Regents is currently looking at requiring professors to use Desire2Learn for posting course content, grades, syllabi and other class materials. “The mandate is at a beginning point [...]