Vol 5 No 1 (2011) Acceleration and Improvement of the Quality and Quantity of Education Through the Provision of ODL Programs in SEA Countries

Suratinah Suratinah - Universitas Terbuka

Cunong Nunuk Suraja - Universitas Terbuka

Abstract

A blogis essentially a web page with regular diary or journal entries. (Dudeney and Hockly, 2007) Furthermore Dudeney and Itoddy classify a blog for teaching-learning in three different types i.e. class blog, tutor blog and student blog. In using as a media, a blog can be functioned for collecting the students' assignments. Mostly the students can put the assignments in their blogs in the form of written text, picture, audio or even video. This article tries to explore the effectiveness of the blog as a media. Comparing three types of blog, most students prefer to have their own blogs to compile their assignments to the class or tutor blog. The use of blog as media in teaching-learning process is preferable because a blog is easy to set up and use with no specialist technical knowledge required.