Using blogging to enhance the initiation of students into academic research
ARTICLE
Eddy K.M. Chong
Computers & Education Volume 55, Number 2, ISSN 0360-1315 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
For the net-generation students learning in a Web 2.0 world, research is often equated with Googling and approached with a mindset accustomed to cut-and-paste practices. Recognizing educators’ concern over such students’ learning dispositions on the one hand, and the educational affordances of blogging on the other, this study examines the use of blogging to initiate students into academic research at the tertiary level. It focuses on the experiences of three students from a third-year music class working on their research paper with blog-based supervision provided by the teacher. The course, in a hybrid fashion, combined face-to-face lectures and tutorials with blog sharing and discussion. The students’ individually-owned blogs were specifically used as their research diaries in which they logged in their work in progress, they then received input from both the teacher and fellow students. Based on the researcher’s self-evaluation of the teaching-supervising process, an analysis of the students’ blog discourse, and students’ survey feedback, this article offers useful insights and suggestions for educators interested in either using or researching on blogging as a means to develop students’ research skills and understanding.
Citation
Chong, E.K.M. (2010). Using blogging to enhance the initiation of students into academic research. Computers & Education, 55(2), 798-807. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/66526/.
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Full text is availabe on Science Direct: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2010.03.012Keywords
- Academic/student research
- blogging
- computer mediated communication
- Cooperation
- Diaries
- discussion
- Electronic Publishing
- Feedback (Response)
- Lecture Method
- music
- Music Education
- Net-generation
- Postsecondary Education
- Research Methodology
- Research Papers (Students)
- Research Skills
- student attitudes
- Student Research
- Student Surveys
- Students
- Synchronous Communication
- tutoring
- undergraduate students
- web 2.0
- Web Sites