Measuring Student Success Through Technology

Now, you're probably wondering what magical formula I've created to determine how successful students can be through interacting with each other online...
I could tell you that there isn't one, but that's not entirely true.

What are some of the components of student success:

• interacting with individuals from different backgrounds, experiences, ethnicity, heritage, socio-economic status
• being involved in student organizations
• attending campus events
• being connected to staff/faculty, on-campus resources
  
• Check here for a decent synopsis of Astin's Student Involvement Theory: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3752/is_199707/ai_n8776622
  

There are more components to student success and satisfaction, but all of them have measures that are always being adapted and applied in new ways.

I'd like to challenge you to think about online social networking, in all its forms, and student engagement through the use of any form of technology as just another venue for applying our understanding of measurements of student success.

I'd really like to see what others think on this issue.