Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy, AL 36849, USA.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2011 Jun 10;75(5):88. doi: 10.5688/ajpe75588.
To implement and assess the effectiveness of using Twitter to encourage interaction between faculty members, guests, and students in a pharmacy management course taught simultaneously on 2 campuses.
Students were required to tweet a minimum of 10 times over several class sessions. The course instructor and guest professionals also participated.
More than eighteen hundred tweets were made by students, guests, and the instructor. Students tweeted most frequently with each other and found value in reading each others' tweets. One hundred thirty-one students completed an optional evaluation survey. Seventy-one percent indicated that Twitter was distracting, 69% believed it prevented note taking, and more than 80% indicated that it facilitated class participation and allowed an opportunity to voice opinions.
Educators who wish to use Twitter in pharmacy courses must balance the potentially positive aspects of the technology, such as increased interaction among students, with potentially negative aspects, such as the interruptive nature of Twitter use and the large volume of tweets generated by a class assignment.
实施并评估在两个校区同时教授的一门药学管理课程中使用 Twitter 鼓励教师、嘉宾和学生之间互动的效果。
要求学生在几个课程时段内至少发推 10 次。课程讲师和客座专业人士也参与其中。
学生、嘉宾和讲师共发推 1800 多次。学生之间最常互相发推，并认为阅读彼此的推文有价值。131 名学生完成了一份可选的评估调查。71%的学生表示 Twitter 分散注意力，69%的学生认为它妨碍记笔记，超过 80%的学生表示它促进了课堂参与，并提供了表达意见的机会。
希望在药学课程中使用 Twitter 的教育者必须平衡该技术的潜在积极方面，如增加学生之间的互动，以及潜在的负面方面，如 Twitter 使用的中断性质和课程作业产生的大量推文。
