Power Your Classroom and Faculty

Education 2.0 is here. Students are engaging in new media like podcasts and online video, and connecting with one another on social network sites like Facebook and MySpace. According to a recent study*, blogs and social media are used far more often inside educational facilities than inside corporations. To stay relevant, universities need to connect with students with a rich online presence.

Upgrade your school's online presence

Movable Type provides a single platform for powering your blogging, website, and social media efforts. You can build a website that's easy to maintain and keeps your school up to date. Movable Type's proven and tested enterprise-grade publishing platform is a versatile tool for many educational institutions, allowing them to:

• Welcome new students. Educate students on the admissions and enrollment processes for your school and prepare them for the next stage of their education. Use student, administrator, and teacher blogs to express the personality and character of your school.

• Empower faculty interaction. Someone can't make it to an instructor's office hours? Have them post questions or documents to the instructor's blog. Faculty can use blogs to quickly post assignment docs, videos, and podcasts of lectures.
  

• Encourage multi-disciplinary dialogue. MT's easy publishing and commenting tools remove technical barriers, and encourage faculty and students to debate and discuss classroom topics and current events online.

• Power student communication. Encourage students of any age to participate and share academic life with online tools that are familiar and comfortable.

• Connect alumni. Create online networks to keep alumni engaged and involved in your school and with each other.

• Manage your network. Easy maintenance and administration empowers the entire school or university to collaborate with one integrated installation.

Example sites

MIT admissions site
The Admissions team at MIT uses their Movable Type blog to provide incoming students with real world experiences about life at MIT. The blog also provides alumni a way to keep in touch with the school's activities.

Stanford multidisciplinary site
Stanford science and engineering departments are using their internal blog to collaborate on research ideas and bring new projects to completion.

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*The Game Has Changed, College Admissions Outpace Corporations in Embracing Social Media By Nora Barnes, Ph.D. and Eric Mattson, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Center for Market Research