Edublog

Abstract: An increasing number of travel, tourism, and hospitality management programs are developing and implementing online courses. Faculty and students are encountering advantages and disadvantages as th...

Abstract: Despite the widespread use of blogs in higher education, there remains a lack of knowledge and consensus about the use and value of blogging in higher education, particularly when used for long periods. This article investigates the use of a group blog to assist traditional teaching activities and foster collaborative learning through the development of a sense of community. It describes how the blog project was implemented and the experiences of administrators and students in using the blog providing insights to educators. To assess students’ experience, a survey was administered to a sample of 135 undergraduate and graduate students. The results show that students find blogging a useful learning tool and that blogs can effectively be used to support learning activities for longer than one semester based on the blog visitors’ statistics and feedback. However, its capacity to build and sustain a sense of community was not as strong as expected. Students were more positive about the use of the blog as an i...

Abstract: Among the challenges considered easy to address according to the NMC Horizon Report 2018 are digital literacy and the combination of formal and informal learning. The university students belong mostly to the Millennials and Z generations, and they are supposed to have a greater capacity for self-learning from the Internet. The aim is intended to identify the profile of internet use by digital native nursing students and degree of satisfaction generated by the use of an educational blog. An anonymous and voluntary questionnaire was administered to 1st and 2nd year students of the Degree in Nursing of the University of Valladolid during the 2017-18 academic year. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study. 91,6% (n = 225) of the enrolled students participated. 74,7% did not know LinkedIn. Google+ was the most widely-used academic tool, followed by Twitter. More than 80% had mid-level knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Moodle. The advanced knowledge possessed about Instagram stands out. 48% had no or low knowledge about using blogs. The satisfaction of the students who used this educational blog Edublog Enfermeria earned an overall score of 8,04 (±1,37) out of 10. Students use social networks as a means of communication and not for academic purposes. The scarce knowledge about the use of blogs and the high satisfaction reported about their use indicates the need to strengthen these tools. Blogs and social networks can be useful to provide digital to nursing students achieving continuous and updated learning.