Advantages of using a blog

If you are a trainer, teacher, lecturer, R&D officers, scientist, students, businessman or whoever you are....blog is for you...a tools to communicate, promote, getting feedback and such.

Below are sevral advantage of using a blog....

Advantage 1
Using a blog makes learning independent of time and place. From teaching in certain time in certain place to teaching at anytime and anywhere. Blog and other asynchronous[wikis, internet database for slides, photos,forum and etc] media give learners time to reflect

Advantage 2
Using a blog makes education demand oriented, participant-centered. From one way teaching to supply oriented to participation by everyone. Education has been transformed form a teacher-led class to a student-centric experience accentuated by self-learning; peer-to-peer teaching, rich, readily available content; greater accessibility; and discovery-based learning.

Advantage 3
Using a blog encourages learners to be active throughout the course period unlike conventional teaching method which some learners are under heavy time pressure for full time job besides study, family metters, private activities and others.

Advantage 4
Using a blog helps learners improve their writing compentencies because participants get better at reflecting and expressing reflections in writing.

Advantage 5
Using a blog captures changes in thingking.

Advantage 5
Using a blog unvites people to collaborate

Advantage 7
Using a blog makes education more informal because we know that most learning occurs outside formal educational settings. Most learning in organisation is informal, yet the majority of learning ringgit (dollars) are spent on formal courses. If organisations are going to successfully transfer knowledge between employees, they must tap into informal learning. One approach that has been used successfully in the corporate blog.

Advantage 8
Using a blog involves also external people. Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the interned paradigm as we know it. The most valuable aspects today are providing a menas for customers to have a dialogue with us. This provides benefits to both parties. In the 'McKinsey Quartely' it stated that 2/3 of all survey respondent use online tools to involve their customers in product development

Advantage 9
Using a blog facilitates the use of images. Learners seems to be more at home with images (icons, video, photos and text)

Advantage 10
Using a blog reduces costs.

Advantage 11
using a blog encourages people to continously try things out. It a world that is consistantly changing, it is riskier to plan, control, and do little than to continuously try things out

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