Ponderers, sloggers, slackers and more: Understanding the profiles of student bloggers to help promote academic self-regulation

Authors

Mark McMahon, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Abstract

"Self-regulated learning is the fusion of skill and will. Students who can regulate their learning show a high level of self-awareness, are motivated and are able to adapt their approaches to the task at hand. Blogging may be seen as one approach to enhancing self-regulation but for that to take place, an understanding of how selfregulation is manifest in blogs must be developed. This paper identifies a range of blogger ‘profiles’ and offers suggestions as to how the processes in self-regulation can be developed through blogging as a learning activity."

Recommended Citation

McMahon, M. (2009). Ponderers, sloggers, slackers and more: Understanding the profiles of student bloggers to help promote academic self-regulation. eCULTURE, 2(1).
Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/eculture/vol2/iss1/13