As the school year comes to a close, the Chronicle of Higher Education posted an article about the wildly popular hashtag called #collegein5words. The idea is for people to describe college in just five words. Not so easy, you say? Looking at the hashtag on BuzzFeed and Twitter in general provides some interesting insight to everything from food thoughts ( “ Who wants to order pizza?”) to movie watching (Study. Eat. Netflix. Sleep. Repeat.”) to sleep patterns (“Maybe I’ll take another nap.”).
Here in the Online Learning Center, we take learning a bit more seriously and were thinking more along the lines of “words of wisdom” not only about Higher Ed but also about learning online. We asked faculty, students, and staff to take part in this trending topic and we received some great ideas:
- Moves me ahead at work
- Who commutes to campus anymore?
- Graduation this week! Congratulations! Celebrate!
- Interactive educational community, connecting internationally
- Exciting. Challenging. Thought-provoking. Community.
- Learning a lot about myself!
Check out some entries from our Twitter feed below.
@WebsterOnline #TakingCharge of your #Life #OneOnlineClassAtATime #collegein5words
— Dave Hallmon (@DaveHallmon) May 12, 2015
Interactive educational community, connecting internationally. #collegein5words #gorloks #online
— WebsterU Online (@WebsterOnline) May 12, 2015
Teaching class in my jammies @WebsterOnline #collegein5words
— Bruce Umbaugh (@bumbaugh) May 11, 2015
Faculty with real world experience #collegein5words #gorloks
— WebsterU Online (@WebsterOnline) May 11, 2015
Life changing, challenging, inspiring, AWESOME. #collegein5words @WebsterOnline @websteru @webstwe #eyeoneducation #getschooled
— Kera Mashek (@ActionNewsKera) May 8, 2015
Give me all the coffee #collegein5words @WebsterOnline
— Alyssa Eason (@aeasonn) May 8, 2015
@WebsterOnline enhanced my professional experiences! #collegein5words #gradschool #positude #itiswhatyoumakeit
— Allison Layne Huey (@A_LayneChange) May 8, 2015
Wikipedia isn't an academic source. #collegein5words @websteronline
— Katherine O'Connor (@katherineo) May 8, 2015
@WebsterOnline WebsterU Online – available anytime, anywhere #collegein5words
— katspr (@katspr) May 8, 2015
Helping students around the clock! @WebsterOnline #collegein5words
— Kate P. (@pez624) May 8, 2015
Online education accessible to everyone. #collegein5words #onlinelearning #gorloks
— WebsterU Online (@WebsterOnline) May 7, 2015
Mastering time management – or sinking #collegein5words
— Julie N Smith (@julnilsmith) May 7, 2015
