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Blog-based courses in higher education: experience from Tallinn University
Hans Põldoja
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Blog-based courses
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Course format
• Course blog + learner blogs
• Additional Web 2.0 and social media tools (Twitter, SlideShare, YouTube, …)
• Open enrollment
• Open educational resources
• Assignments through blog posts
• Feedback and discussion in comments
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Challenges in blog-based courses
• Coordinating and following the course activities
• Creating and sustaining the learning community
• Designing content and activities
• Feedback and assessment
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Challenges in blog-based courses
• Coordinating and following the course activities
• Creating and sustaining the learning community
• Designing content and activities
• Feedback and assessment
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Personal introductions / About pages
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Learning contracts
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Blog rolls
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Challenges in blog-based courses
• Coordinating and following the course activities
• Creating and sustaining the learning community
• Designing content and activities
• Feedback and assessment
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Publishing course content
• WordPress pages for lecture notes
• SlideShare for presentations
• YouTube for videos and screencasts
• Mendeley for research publications
• Dropbox for resources that cannot be shared in public web (scanned book chapters, etc.)
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Designing assignments
• Assignments combine practical and theoretical learning goals
• Assignments encourage reflection
• Assignments allow each learner to come up with an original solution
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Student posts as content
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Different learning paths
Basic knowledge badges
Basic knowledge on
learning objects and repositories
Basic knowledge on authoring tools
Basic knowledge on
computer-based
assessment
Basic knowledge on
new technologies
Basic knowledge on copyright of
digital learning
resources
Basic knowledge on
quality of digital
learning resources
Content package author
Assessment test author
e-Textbook author
Advanced knowledge on
learning objects and repositories
Advanced knowledge on authoring tools
Advanced knowledge on
computer-based assessment
Advanced knowledge on
new technologies
Advanced knowledge on copyright of
digital learning resources
Advanced knowledge on
quality of digital learning
resources
Blogging assignment 1 Blogging assignment 2 Blogging assignment 3 Blogging assignment 4 Blogging assignment 5Group assignment on developing a digital learning resource
Blogging assignment 6 Literature review
Describing the advantages and
disadvantages of learning objects approach
Searching for learning objects from learning object repositories by metadata and licenses
Creating simple content packages, tests and e-
textbooks, and describing these with metadata
Following copyright principles for digital learning resources
Evaluating the quality of a learning resources using an evaluation framework
Using one authoring tool to create a more
comprehensive digital learning resource
Analyzing the current issues, research studies and trends in one sub-topic related to digital
learning resources
Learning outcomes
Assignments
Advanced knowledge badges
Skills badges
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Challenges in blog-based courses
• Coordinating and following the course activities
• Creating and sustaining the learning community
• Designing content and activities
• Feedback and assessment
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Commenting
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Liking
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Summary posts
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Open Badges
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Conclusions
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Benefits of using blogs
• Supporting learners to develop and express their ideas
• Supporting collaboration and group work
• Getting feedback from others
• Enriching the learning environment
• Promoting new educational practices
• Motivating learners
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Example data from a course
• 15 weeks
• 15 learners + 1 facilitator
• 162 blog posts (incl. 22 from the facilitator)
• 239 comments (incl. 44 from the facilitator)
• 81 trackback links between the blogs
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Related publications• Põldoja, H. (2010). EduFeedr: following and supporting learners in open blog-
based courses. In Open ED 2010 Proceedings. Barcelona: UOC, OU, BYU. http://hdl.handle.net/10609/4861
• Põldoja, H., Duval, E., & Leinonen, T. (in press). Design and evaluation of an online tool for open learning with blogs. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology.
• Põldoja, H., & Laanpere, M. (2014). Exploring the Potential of Open Badges in Blog-Based University Courses. In Y. Cao, T. Väljataga, J. K. T. Tang, H. Leung, & M. Laanpere (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 8699. New Horizons in Web Based Learning (pp. 172–178). Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13296-9_19
• Väljataga, T., Põldoja, H., Laanpere, M. (2011). Open Online Courses: Responding to Design Challenges. In H. Ruokamo, M. Eriksson, L. Pekkala, & H. Vuojärvi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Network-Based Education 2011 Conference The Social Media in the Middle of Nowhere (pp. 68-75). Rovaniemi: University of Lapland.
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Hans Põldoja Lecturer School of Digital Technologies Tallinn University Estonia
[email protected] @hanspoldoja
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