Let's follow the steps: as a Finance major student, I always try to take some relaxative and novel course in the U of L. That's why I am in Edu4766. Don't need to go to the classtoom; don't need purchase any text book; don't have any quiz and exam. Wow...... These are fabulous.
Before taking this course, I took Edu 4767 during summer session, an another course based on website. I felt blog is very useful for an online course. In Edu 4767, we created different topics and gave different opinions through weblogs. The discussions were drastic and long. Students can input their words anytime and anywhere. In our class, a topic always received responses all day long and keeps for several days. The weblog did give us an convenient environment for online course learning.
However, I feel online course is much more traning oriented than the education. What's eduction? Education is something left after you forget all the knowledge you learned before. Education is something more than the knowledge; education is an ability to sum up, conclude, and study something useful from lives, books, experiences, etc...
What I want to say is weblog is an great tool to support online learning, because it can give an environment for everyone join the class, meanwhile gives each students personal spaces.
