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The use of weblogs in higher education: benefits and barriers, Related…
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Related Work
- The log can serve as the basis for generating Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), support class discussion, and provide the basis for the creation of a class presentation and web site”.
- Weblogs are defined as “personal web pages written in chronological diary form and maintained through weblogging software”.
Benefits
- Students can share their results with others.
- Students can focus on content.
- Students learn about web page creation in an intuitive way.
-students can jointly write a weblog.
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Support group learned
- Instructors can monitor published weblogs easily.
- Instructor do not need to convert student documents and publish them, as it is already done
Authors
- Explore the potential of weblogs as learning spaces for students in the higher education sector.
- Investigate the impact of weblog use on individual learning in a university environment.
- Describes the technology behind weblogs and presents the basic functionality of weblogs.
Weblog types, uses and advantages
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Instructor weblog: usually contain course content, course managment information, general commentary to all students about their learning progress.
Student weblog: created concurrently with the learning
experience, and reporting on the learning content as wells as the process.
A project weblog, often authored by a team of students,
documents the project progress and findings.
Advantages
- Weblogs makes easier to publish all types of resources (text, images, video, etc.) to the Web
when compared to traditional web publishing.
- Weblogs can be updated easily, from anywhere
without having to worry about FTP
connections, web authoring software, etc
- 24/7 (anytime, anywhere) access to information posted in weblogs
- Instructor does not need to periodically request the learning logs to the students
- Other technologies can be applied jointly. For instance, using of Wikis as enablers for group
writing and knowledge sharing. For example, building glossaries
Benefits and Barriers
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- The first and foremost benefit of weblogs in HEIs is their use as e-learning tools. This way, the
teaching-learning process can continue outside the classroom
- Weblogs’ features (linking, replying, and tracking) make easier sharing knowledge and
information.
- Discussions in weblogs promote higher levels of thinking, because people can think before
answering back
- Collaborative weblogs support team work and group learning.
- The use of weblogs (new technologies) prepares students better for the current labour market
- System administrators tend to be restrictive in installing new software
- Even though most weblogs are hosted in public, free ASPs, learning weblogs should be
hosted in private servers, so that they do not show neither advertisements nor banners
- If the weblog is public, it may suffer troll infestations, people that intentionally try to cause
disruption by posting messages that are inflammatory, insulting, incorrect, inaccurate, or offtopic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others
- The information provide by the analysis of the weblog development may be used by the academic institutions to carry out a SWOT (Strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis of the teaching-learning process
- Faculty members use weblogs to post class announcements, syllabi, assignments, and more in addition to offering students a forum for discussing class topics
- Weblogs can extend conversations and discussions past the school day, linking to resources and relevant materials, inviting parents to participate with their children, and inviting students from other parts to collaborate.
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