Work in progress: TwittING project. Using Twitter in engineering education

Abstract

This paper presents TwittING project, which aims to use Twitter as an educational tool for engineering students. The background of the project was the positive experience of a lecturer team with a Classroom Response System (CRS) based on clickers. TwittING aims to use Twitter as a question-based learning tool, but also as a dynamic platform for the peer-to-peer communication and learning assessment. Preliminary results regarding the experience of both students and lecturers are presented in this paper.