6. evaluation of online learning

Study of interaction Study of interaction between students in the between students in the bloggerblogger

Done by -:

Nasser AliMohammed al-badi

overviewoverview Weblog or blog is a Web page that serves as a

publicly accessible personal journal for an individual.( Forster and Tam (2006))Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author afford immediate-ness, global-ness, connected-ness and engaged-ness for bloggers. They explain immediate-ness as blog postings are available to readers on the weblog as soon as they are posted.

overview Global-ness of blogging means bloggers are

cognizant that their postings will be accessible world wide. Weblogs, as with all websites, can link to, or be linked to from any other weblog or website on the Internet and that is the feature of connected-ness. Also another term engaged-ness as the affordance of weblogs that invites interaction between the writer and the reader.

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The aim of this studyThe aim of this study

This study aims to find out if using blogs as interaction tools for learning process a mange of courses .Can blog be effective tool for interaction between

student during the course .

Problem of this studyProblem of this study-: -:

Recently there are a lot of courses that depend in the interaction between students to exchange the knowledge and new idea so some course use the bloggers for

interaction.

ParticipantsParticipants-:-:

The participants are the under graduate students of Computer and Instructional Technologies Education program who study the course that using blog as interaction tool .we make survey to find out If the blog can be used as interaction tool between

students.

InstrumenatInstrumenat We use survey as instrument

which consist of 12 questions to collect the information or result and we upload it in Survey Console

Survey Link: http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=566423

DiscussionDiscussion Findings Findings andand

The comments for 12 questions posed are analyzed through quantitative techniques.

Students’ opinions and reviews about bloggers are analyzed through questions analysis

This few questions that we analyze it

Question 2: Can you move easy between the blogs and responses?

Among 12 responses posted for this question about half of them (55%) agreed that the transition between blogger and responses is easy, and the others (45%) do not agreed.

From these results we can estimate that the blogger need more development to exceed the obstacles that faced the students in transition between responses and blogs.

This chart show the response in Question 2

Question6: Dose it quickly load?Among 12 responses posted for this question

about (50%) of them agreed that the blogger loud quickly but the other (50%) do not.

As we see in this result some users have some difficulties to loud the blog .so it is difficult to the users who have low speed connection to blog some topic or responses

Discussion Findings and

This chart show the response in Question 6

Question12: Blog is a good tool to use it in the course as interaction tool

Among the responses posted for this question about (75%) of them agreed that the blog can we used it as interaction tool but the other(25%) said that was disagreed .as we can see from this result we can conclude that the blog can we use it as interaction tool during learning tool .

Discussion Findings and

This chart show the response in Question 12

AdvantagesAdvantages From the results we can estimate that the blogger is accessible. the blogger can provide useful information from

the blogs response and can be as resource for some topic from the student participation

the blogger can provide useful information from the blogs response and can be as resource for some topic from the student participation.

the blogger support graphic and videos so blogger help student to express them self by image or videos also that make the student understand the topic or the concepts in easy way

LimitationLimitation As we see in the result some users have some difficulties to

loud the blog .so it is difficult to the users who have low speed connection to blog some topic or responses

the blogger have good navigation control

the blogger content can be read by the learner and they can extract the information from it.

ReferencesReferences

Forster, W.P. and Tam,T. (2006). Weblogs and Student-Centered Learning: Personal Experiences in MBA Teaching. Information Systems Education Journal, 4 (15). http://isedj.org/4/15/. ISSN: 1545-679X.

Eralp ALTUN*, Alev ATES**, Y. Deniz ARIKAN***, lker ÇOBANOGLU****, Tarık KISLA

Can We Use Weblogs As Learning Tools?

URL:-http://www.icits.org/includes/ornekBildiri.pdf access in25-4-2009

Niall Watts, IT Services, University College Dublin Measures of Learning Style in the Evaluation of Blogs as Reflective Learning Tools

URL:http://www.ucd.ie/teaching/projects/colloquium2007/posters/Niall%20Watts.pdf access in 15-4-2009