Postgraduate blogs: beyond the ordinary research journal

Ferguson, Rebecca; Clough, Gill and Hosein, Anesa (2007). Postgraduate blogs: beyond the ordinary research journal. In: Research Proceedings of the 14th Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2007) Beyond control: learning technology for the social network generation, 4-6 Sep 2007, Nottingham, UK.

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Abstract

The study described in this paper investigated ways in which keeping a research journal as a blog rather than as a paper document influenced the postgraduate student research experience. Four blogs (three individual and one collaborative blog) initiated by three research students were used as the corpus of data. The three individual blogs acted as alternatives to the traditional research journal. The analysis indicated that blogs can promote a community where students are encouraged to reflect and share ideas, skills and research life idiosyncrasies. Blogs also acted as memory repositories and encouraged collaboration amongst the research students.

Item Type:	Conference Item
Extra Information:	ISBN: 978-0-9545870-6-2
Academic Unit/Department:	Knowledge Media Institute Institute of Educational Technology
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Item ID:	12275
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Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2008 11:24
Last Modified:	11 Jan 2011 11:08
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/12275

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