How blogs can be used to enhance online learning

I think blogs can be used to enhance online learning because it is more attractive to students comparing to normal educational web pages. Blogs provide a very convenience channel for teachers and students to share opinions on the same subject, which can assists in developing a better relationship among classmates. Other than sharing opinions, students can also leave questions on the blog. Since all students have the ability to see the questions, answer from teachers will most likely be more detail because this prevents the issues of replying to the same question for more than one student. Entries in blogs can only be deleted by the user, which give students the ability to check any assignments or important information while they are looking through the teachers’ blog. Blogs is such an innovative and convenience medium for learning, it will greatly increase students’ motivation to work harder, also to get a better grade overall.
Using blogs for online learning not only is beneficial to students, it is also beneficial to teachers. Blogs can save tons of paper works for teachers because only keeping a list of website of all students’ blogs will give them access to all information they need from students. Also, being able to check archived entries on the blog can assists teachers to keep track of any improvements a student might have throughout the course. Furthermore, blogs is more convenience when giving students the links to any useful sources. This is better than sending email using a class list to avoid any issues with students emails (inbox full, not in class list, etc) since all students in the class have access to the blog.