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Iwona DOLIŃSKATHE ROLE OF BLOGS IN E‑LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

BLOG DEFINITIONThe short of web logThe web site identified by the specific format

Discrete posts arranged in reverse chronological order

Post classified by the categories they are tagged with

In the posts - links to information gathered on the Web

Blogroll – a list of links recommended by the author

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COMMUNICATION WITH BLOGS

Bidirectional communication between authors and users on the scale, which is impossible to be achieved with earlier communication tools

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

BLOGS' POPULARITYSimple user interface

Rapid delivery and high searchability

Commenting another bloggers' posts is a digital form of social interactions [Source: Sun W.; Qiu H.: “A social network analysis on Blogospheres”. International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, 2008]

The Technorati search service was tracking 133 million blogs in the September 2008 [Source: Sifry D.: “Technorati's State of the Blogosphere”, September 2008 on: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/09/technoratis_sta.html]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

KNOWLEDGE SHARING WITH BLOGSSome of blogs authored by active and knowledgeable bloggers focused on specific knowledge domains

This blogs sometimes become the center of passionate communities interested in the same topic

[Source: Nasr A. A., Ariffin M. M.: “Blogging as a means of knowledge sharing: Blog communities and informal learning in the blogosphere”. International Symposium on Information Technology, 2008]

Any kind of information on every subject can be found in the blogosphere

Blogs seems to be a very good educational tool for all who want to increase their knowledge

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

BLOGS IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONThe blog provides the field where the decentralized authorship can be realized

Creates more comfortable environment where students can be motivated to make reflections and comments

Blog has great potential to become one of the effective groupware in education

[Source: Divitini, M.; Haugalokken, O.; Morken, E.M.: “Blog to support learning in the field: lessons learned from a fiasco”. Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005]

Many practical examples show that blogs are good tools for learning in distance courses in university education

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

AN EXPERIMENT WITH BLOGS AT NUSTThe project was conducted as a part of the course of PPE at Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology

The blog was designed as a tool for sharing ideas and getting response from peers and teachers

This initial version of experiment was not successful

Many interesting reflections and conclusions were made about assumptions for such projects

[Source: Divitini, M.; Haugalokken, O.; Morken, E.M.: “Blog to support learning in the field: lessons learned from a fiasco”. Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

BLOGS IN AN INTERNATIONAL DISTANCE COURSE

The project was conducted during a distance course of e-learning, organized by Kyoto University and National Taiwan University

Blogs accompanied the LMS resources to enable students to document their learning and was popular

Blog broadened the students' flexibility and space to reflect and discuss in an easier way

[Source: Wei-Jane Lin, Yi-Ling Liu, Kakusho K., Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Murakami M., Minoh, M.: “Blog as a Tool to Develop e-Learning Experience in an International Distance Course”. Sixth International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

AN E-LEARNING FRAMEWORK BASED ON BLOG

The framework proposed in Univ. of Cape Town, focuses on collaborative learning and sharing of ideas and opinions among peers

As the core of the system the semantic blog is used

For successful e-learning with blogs the framework is based on nine cornerstones comprising four layers

[Source: Berman S., Katoma V.: “An e-Learning Framework Based on Semantic Weblogs”. The Third Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, 2007]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

AN E-LEARNING FRAMEWORK BASED ON BLOG

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[Source: Berman S., Katoma V.: “An e-Learning Framework Based on Semantic Weblogs”. The Third Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, 2007]

Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

WEB LECTURES AND WEB 2.0Web lectures are the core of the most e-learning systems, also this at the University of Osnabrück

The integration of the web lectures with other web based learning systems incorporating Web 2.0 is necessary

The integration process encompasses social footprints, user created bookmarks and a special player based on the virtPresenter framework for blog integration

[Source: Ketterl M., Mertens R., Vornberger O.: “Web Lectures and Web 2.0”. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2008]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

WEB LECTURES AND WEB 2.0

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virtPresenter web interface with active user footprints[Source: Ketterl M., Mertens R., Vornberger O.: “Web Lectures and Web 2.0”. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2008]

Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

KNOWLEDGE SHARING WITH BLOGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Knowledge sharing is in some of aspects similar to e‑learning

Both of them are type of Technology supported education/learning (TSL)

For knowledge sharing to happen, opportunities for interactions must be present [Source: Nasr A. A., Ariffin M. M.: “Blogging as a means of knowledge sharing: Blog communities and informal learning in the blogosphere”. International Symposium on Information Technology, 2008]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

KNOWLEDGE SHARING WITH BLOGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Blog is a good place for the professor to share knowledge with the students about technical news related to the lectures

[Source: R. Schroeder “One Path to the Blog”. eLearn Magazine on: http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices&article=14-1]

Blog has been successfully implemented to enable sharing the knowledge about research methods between researchers and between PhD students

[Source: L. Giarré, L. Jaccheri “Learning Research Methods and Processes via Sharing Experience in a BLOG”. Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

POSTGRADUATE'S PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Postgraduate education has its own training model with research-oriented characteristics

Blog is highly customizable tool, which can be used for preparing the personal e‑portfolio

Blog is very useful for postgraduate students to document the research progress and as personal repository of knowledge resources

[Source: Hongfei Li, Xiaolu Yang, Shu Zhao: “Research on Postgraduate's Personal Knowledge Management Based on Blog and RSS”. International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling]

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

THE PROJECT OF USING BLOGS DURING GRADUATE SEMINAR

The aim of the project is to improve students' motivation and ability to construct their own knowledge

The blog creates comfortable environment where students can be motivated to make reflections and comments

Writing the blog is a very good exercise improving student writing skills

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

THE PROJECT OF USING BLOGS DURING GRADUATE SEMINAR

The project assumes, that each graduate student will write his/her own blog during the time of graduate thesis preparation

The blog will document students researches and work progress

It will be the tool for sharing knowledge about each student thesis subject, about searching and preparing own knowledge sources

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

THE EXAMPLE OF ASSISTANT QUESTIONSThe set of questions will help students with their work To help student choose the thesis subject:

– What are you particularly interested in computer science?– What do you do at work?– Do you like to prepare new programs or rather you like to

make research?– Are you interested in new Internet technologies?– What literature about computer science did you read recently?– What difficulties with the chosen subject do you expect?

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

CONCLUSIONSThe presentation shows possibilities of blogs in the context of higher education

Many practical examples prove that blogs are a very useful tool in e-learning and knowledge sharing

The project of using blogs to improve the graduate theses preparation is presented

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Iwona DOLIŃSKA, "The role of blogs in e‑learning and knowledge sharing"

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