Using ‘Formally’ Informal Blogs to Create Learning Communities for Students on a Teaching and Learning Programme: Peer Mentoring and Reflective Spaces

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Author(s): Elaine Tan (Durham University, UK)and Eleanor Loughlin (Durham University, UK)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 13
Source title: Online Tutor 2.0: Methodologies and Case Studies for Successful Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Francisco José García-Peñalvo (University of Salamanca, Spain)and Antonio Miguel Seoane Pardo (University of Salamanca, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5832-5.ch007

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Web-Based Teaching & Learning

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This chapter details the use of informal blogs as part of teaching induction programme and their role in creating small online learning communities. The chapter explores the informal appropriation of a seemingly formal tool within a virtual learning environment to create a student-owned space for discussion, reflection and online peer mentoring. The blogs were analysed and combined with feedback from the students themselves on this process with the results indicating that the students used the online spaces for a number of interactions, both learning and socially orientated.

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