期刊名称：International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education
电子版ISSN：1838-2959
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：100-105
DOI：10.5204/intjfyhe.v1i1.23
摘要：Communicating with first year students has become a far more complex prospect in the digital age. There is a lot of competition for limited attentional resources from media sources in almost endless channels. Getting important messages to students when there is so much competing information is a difficult prospect for academic and professional divisions of the university alike. Students’ preferences for these communication channels are not well understood and are constantly changing with the introduction of new technology. A first year group was surveyed about their use and preference for various sources of information. Students were generally positive about the use of social networking and other new online media but strongly preferred more established channels for official academic and administrative information. A discussion of the findings and recommendations follows.
