Blogs as "Just-in-Time-Teaching" Method in Virtual Space

• Autorzy: Ewelina Twardoch
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In the paper I would like to consider blogs as educational methods in higher education. Many authors [Mortensen 2008; Lankshear, Knobel 2006] suggested that blogs have a great potential in supporting the learning process. Blogs are often perceived as easy form of communication, as rather entertainment than teaching tool, but in referring to the assumption of selected authors (first of all Jude Hidgon and Chad M. Topaz according to whom blogs are excellent example of "just-in-time-teaching" method), and my own experience, I would like to show that blogs can be a space that helps to engage students in systematic learning. Moreover, I would like to threat blogs as a form of a performative space - created up to date, where lecturer and students can share their comments and observations, not just during one classes per week. In my paper, in the presented theoretical context, I am gomg to introduce my experience with using blogs during the academic course in my Institute (Institute of Audiovisual Arts) among full-time students of the third year of study and I will compare my observations with A.F. Pearson's conclusions on her using of blog methods with around 260 students during the introductory social problems course. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Higher education; Blogs; Virtual reality

PL

Szkolnictwo wyższe; Blogi; Rzeczywistość wirtualna

• Czasopismo: Scientific Publications / University of Economics in Katowice
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: New Media in Higher Education Market
• Strony: 268--277

Twórcy

autor

Ewelina Twardoch

• Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland

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