4.1.0.4 - Blogging

Edublogs

By Robin Mason, The Open University

The question here is: what potential does blogging have as a learning medium? Certainly schools have begun to encourage blogging among children as a way of building on the value of peer learning: writing for one's peers rather than the teacher, building a network of discussion and peer comments. In a way, it is taking the 'vanity publishing' concept and turning it to educational use. In Higher Education, journalism courses have been obvious early adopters, but other subjects are also investigating the potential and trying small experiments. Likewise companies are looking into blogging as forms of knowledge building, company archiving and community exchange.