Web 2.0 in education: A study of the explorative use of blogs with a postgraduate class

Web 2.0 in education: A study of the explorative use of blogs with a postgraduate class

• Churchill, Daniel Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong

Innovations in Education & Teaching International, 48(2), 149-158, 2011

London

Routledge

2011

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GJ Interdisciplinary
    • GJC Teaching Methods & Their Outcomes

Blogs Internet in Education Educational Innovations Graduate Students

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper outlines a study that explored educational applications of blogs with a class of postgraduate students in a Hong Kong university over a period of one semester in 2006, and considers its outcomes. Rather than using the usual learning management system to support learning in the class, the facilitator-researcher organised a blog-based environment where students accessed course material, posted reflections featuring artifacts created in the learning tasks, commented on each other's contributions, and in other ways participated on a regular basis throughout the semester. The study results suggest that when appropriately managed by a facilitator, blogs have the potential to effectively support teaching and learning activities. The experience from this study also suggests that in order to maximise teaching and learning opportunities, a blog system can be effectively expanded by the use of a variety of other Web 2.0 applications.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 14703297

• 10.1080/14703297.2011.564009

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/d141f1ab

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