Post-Secondary Students' Purposes For Blogging

The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted on eight blogs using previously tes...

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Autores principales:	Paul Henry Leslie, Elizabeth Murphy
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2008
Materias:	Blogging Post-secondary teaching presence social presence knowledge construction Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/db37318fc15f4660aecaa6a367429f21
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:db37318fc15f4660aecaa6a367429f212021-12-02T19:20:55ZPost-Secondary Students' Purposes For Blogging10.19173/irrodl.v9i3.5601492-3831https://doaj.org/article/db37318fc15f4660aecaa6a367429f212008-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/560https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted on eight blogs using previously tested instruments to identify social presence and knowledge construction. Authors of the blogs participated in a focus group discussion about the purposes for blogging. Findings revealed that the primary use of blogging was for social purposes. Self-disclosure was the most notable purpose for blogging, in addition to sharing emotional responses to learning. The lack of teaching presence may have influenced students’ use of blogging for social rather than instructional purposes.Paul Henry LeslieElizabeth MurphyAthabasca University PressarticleBloggingPost-secondaryteaching presencesocial presenceknowledge constructionSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 9, Iss 3 (2008)
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description	The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted on eight blogs using previously tested instruments to identify social presence and knowledge construction. Authors of the blogs participated in a focus group discussion about the purposes for blogging. Findings revealed that the primary use of blogging was for social purposes. Self-disclosure was the most notable purpose for blogging, in addition to sharing emotional responses to learning. The lack of teaching presence may have influenced students’ use of blogging for social rather than instructional purposes.
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Post-Secondary Students' Purposes For Blogging

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