“Weblogs” or “blogs” are increasingly visible in higher education settings. Some scholars
suggest that blogs are useful because of their reflective nature. However, as this review …

The role of learner autonomy and self‐regulated learning in distance education has
received much attention. The application of these concepts impacts course design and …

Analysing the process by which students—whether at university or not—manage and
facilitate their own learning has been a recurrent educational research problem. Recently …

The current study explores closely how using a combined modalities of asynchronous
computer-mediated communication (CMC) via blogs and face-to-face (FTF) interaction …

This study uses voice blogs as a platform for an extensive study of language learners'
speaking skills. To triangulate the findings, the study collected data by surveying the …

Blog technology is a potential medium for encouraging reflective writing through self-
expression and interactive exchange through social networking. This paper reports on a …

Based on the assumptions that students expect feedback and want to improve, and that
improvement is possible, this book introduces a framework that applies the theory of self …

Recent years have seen the emergence of Web2. 0, in which users are not only passive
recipients of the featured content, but actively engaged in constructing it. Sites such as …

In order to acquire pragmatic competence, learners must have access to the target language
input and opportunities for pragmatic practice. Over the last three decades, research has …

This report is part of the IPTS1 research project “Learning 2.0: Impact of web 2.0 innovations
on education and training” under the Administrative Arrangement between DG JRC-IPTS IS …