Student Weblog Use in an Online Class in Arizona
Stuart Glofoff of the Learning Technologies Center at the University of Arizona has written a report about student weblog use in an online course. The report, Blogging In An Online Course: A Report on Student Satisfaction Among First-time Bloggers, tells about how weblogs were introduced as a communication tool. Decision Making for Information Professionals was a ten-week, online masters-level course taught during the summer of 2003 to 29 students geographically dispersed across North America. Three surveys were given to assess the students experiences and acceptance of using blogs. When asked what they liked most about using the weblogs students focused on being able to learn new things by using the blog, using a new technology, experiencing the sense of community that it developed around the topic, the informal nature of sharing information on a blog, and its use as a current awareness tool.
The class weblogs were Technology News and IRLS613.
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