Building an Effective Blog-Based Teaching Platform in Higher Medical Education
As an educational tool, blog is one of the user-friendly technological means that supports teaching and learning processes in higher education. There are many ways to use blogging in teaching and learning. In our university, we try to build a blog-based t
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Building an Effective Blog-Based Teaching Platform in Higher Medical Education Bailiu Ya, Qun Ma and Chuanping Si
Abstract As an educational tool, blog is one of the user-friendly technological means that supports teaching and learning processes in higher education. There are many ways to use blogging in teaching and learning. In our university, we try to build a blog-based teaching platform for higher medical education. This platform provides a constructive and interactive learning environment where students and instructors negotiate, discuss, reflect and evaluate individual understandings of learning and teaching practice and experience. The use of this blog-based teaching platform has shown a positive impact on learning and professional developments. In our experience, what makes this process more meaningful and sustainable are active participation and high quality interaction which require collaboration and interaction together with commitment and support from students and instructors. In essence, this paper not only introduces the blog-based teaching platform building by our university, but also discusses the potential of blogs to support reflection and communication in higher medical education, and explores the strengths and weaknesses of current practice in order to build a more effective platform in the future.
Keywords Blog-based teaching platform Higher medical education Information technology Blog
B. Ya Q. Ma C. Si (&) Jining Medical University, 272067 Shandong, China e-mail: [email protected] B. Ya e-mail: [email protected] Q. Ma e-mail: [email protected]
S. Li et al. (eds.), Frontier and Future Development of Information Technology 2519 in Medicine and Education, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 269, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7618-0_314, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
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314.1 Introduction Over the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the new generation of social media, especially Web 2.0 technologies. The users of internet have the opportunity to have a voice by means of Web 2.0, while they previously could only access to the information that the administrator of the site allows. In this way the users have begun to compose the content of the sites [1, 2]. As a Web 2.0 technology, the blog is a chronological publication in which personal thoughts and opinions are posted on websites [3]. Blogs help people to create, communicate, and publish online content more easily. Due to the ease of use, functionality and flexibility, they have become much more commonplace throughout the online environments. These attributes of the blog are also well suited to be used as teaching and learning media in higher medical education [1, 4]. Particularly in today’s world it becomes impossible to think of an educational system without information and communication technology.
314.2 Blog-Based Teaching Platform Building in Higher Medical Education A blog is an open system which receives all resources (e.g., video clips, photos, etc.), transforms them
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