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THE USE OF WEBLOGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: BENEFITS AND BARRIERS : (Styles…
THE USE OF WEBLOGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
BENEFITS AND BARRIERS
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Weblogs are personal web pages written in chronological order and maintained through a specific software that helps their administration.
Some benefits are:
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, which supports group learning.
Instructors can monitor published weblogs easily.
Styles of weblogs
Interactive
Mostly based on whether
the weblog author allows for comments on the weblog.
Closed
Content
Personal topics, political/social/economic commentaries, information technology, etc.
Instructor weblog
Mainly used as an additional
communication channel to share information with students.
Student weblog
Are basically learning or project weblogs.
Learning weblog
Is a learning diary, created concurrently with the learning experience, and reporting on the learning content as wells as the process.
Project weblog
Often authored by a team of students,
documents the project progress and findings.
Uses
Improve writing skills, encouraging reflective writing,reading
student weblogs for assessment, sharing resources and ideas, etc.
Advantages
Easy to administrate, can be updated easily, 24/7 access to information posted, instructor does not need to periodically request the learning logs.
Benefits
Help create connections between students with diverse opinions, teachers may benefit from the possibility of monitoring projects in real time, The use of new technologies prepares students better for the current labour market.
Barriers
Instructors may have difficulty in assessing student participation, lack of computers or difficult access to the Internet, If the weblog is public, it may suffer troll infestations.