new century college
- Students share learning experiences on the Web without being familiar with web publishing
- Students
live online
- more receptive to communicating this way
- more likely to fulfill assignments
- Student
collaboration
- read each others' work
- link to each others' work
- create group blogs to facilitate group work
- see and learn from others' styles of writing, approaches to assignments
- communities of practice
- Dissemination of information (alternative to listservs - does not rely on students' checking of e-mail)
- Reach a public audience on the Web without having to learn web Web publishing skills
- Building an archive of "of the moment" reading and research sources
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Faculty Development
- reflective tool to share research and pedagogy
- facilitates peer-to-peer learning
- "instant publishing" of research insights and teaching innovation
- community of practice
