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À rapprocher de l’enquête menée auprès des professeurs d’universités par le groupe d’édition Thomson Learning. Leurs points de vue sur les nouveaux outils internet comme Facebook, My Space, les blogs, les podcasts et les iPod laissent transparaître, comme pour les étudiants, leur envie d’animer et de communiquer différemment en classe.

- Nearly 50 percent of faculty respondents who are familiar with socialnetworking sites say they feel such sites have or will change the waystudents learn.
- Nearly 90 percent of respondents who are familiar with social networking sites know about sites that allow students to grade or rate professors, and 67 percent have checked if they’ve been graded.
- While the majority of faculty surveyed do not use social networking sites, those who do use these sites use them for both personal and work purposes.
- Nearly 35 percent of respondents view podcasting as a valuable communication tool to reach students.
- Nearly 10 percent of faculty members surveyed indicate they have their own blogs. Comparatively, fewer than 8 percent of Americans have blog.