When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, he wanted to make a closed network for the elite at Harvard. Over time, he realized that by opening it up, he would be able to build something that cataloged the college experience for everyone. Eventually, it expanded outside of college but the roots were embedded in the entire college experience. A case could be made that today, as the vast majority of college students are on social networks when they enter or join them shortly after getting to college, social media is as big of a part of the college experience as parties have always been. Is this a good thing?…

Colleges have always been a venue for the latest and greatest in technology to not only be used, but often created as well. Today’s and tomorrow’s college students are “ultra-connected” and many do not even know what life would be like without constant contact with the internet, their friends and family, or the devices that bridge the real world to the virtual existence that often lives in our pockets. This infographic explores the way that American students and the colleges they attend have integrated technology into education in ways that were unfathomable just a couple of decades ago. Click…

There is little doubt that Facebook has emerged as a dominant form of communication for college-age people. For many, it’s easier to contact them through Facebook than by calling their phone. Is it changing the way that college itself is working as well? That’s the question that Online PhD asked and attempts to answer in the infographic below. As Facebook continues to expand internally and in userbase, there’s bound to be more apps, groups, and pages created that are geared towards changing the user experience at college (and everywhere else, it seems). Click to enlarge. Created by: Online PhD…