There are many types of weblogs: personal topics, political / social / economic comments, information technology, etc.
Fusing styles and contents, some types are suggested: personal diary, links of gauges, interactive comment, unidirectional comment, hodge-podge, etc.
Focusing on educational weblogs, in this article we propose the following classification according to the role (instructor or student) played by the weblog writer in the teaching / learning process:
Weblog for instructors
Weblogs written by instructors are mainly used as an additional communication channel to share information with students. Instructor weblogs usually contain course content, course management information, general comments to all students about your learning progress, etc.
Student weblog
Weblogs written by students are basically learning weblogs or projects weblogs A learning weblog [21] is “a learning diary, created simultaneously with learning experience and reports on learning content.