The H818 is a project-based module that gives learners a greater degree of control than usual on what they produce in their assignments. Each learner was requested to conduct a relevant project that was presented at The Open University's H818 Online Conference that takes place every year. More info about my project can be found here: https://sixbert-h818project.weebly.com

1. H818 – The Networked Practitioner
Prepared by: Sixbert SANGWA
Use of blog to enhance students’ revision and
critical reflection skills
Module Conference Presentation

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Introduction
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•There has been increasing use technology in
education (Young & Stover, 2015).
•Increased mobile ownership by students
(Daniel, 2016)
• Increased use of web 2.0 tools, especially blog
(Ersin et al., 2011, Christopher, 2014 and
Emma et al., 2016 ).
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Introduction
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This study explored blog’s effectiveness in
this matter with focus on implementation
Few studies explored how blog can
enhance revision and critical reflection
skills (Pham & Usaha 2016).

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Why Revision and Critical Reflection Skills?
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Not often studied nor taught in schools(Cohen, 2013);
Yet, most important skills in learning (Slater, 2012).
Revision improves students’ performance
(Galbraith & Torrance, 2004)!
Critical Reflection facilitates introspective
learning (Shadomo, 2018)

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Implementation
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Pedagogy
Implementation
Context
Refugee
camp
Class B
Blog
Peers
reviews
Class A
No Blog

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Evaluation
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Evaluation
Class B
Common Post-
training Test
Feedback
Survey
Class A
Common Post-
training Test

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Results of The Post-training Common Test
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Results of The Post-training Common Test
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75.70% 71.25%
ClassB
ClassA
The average scores for each class were respectively:

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Student Feedback Survey
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Student Feedback Survey
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Student Feedback Survey
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Conclusion
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Effective use
of blog
Students
performance
Lifelong learning
Peer reflection

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Identified Project Gaps
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• Ask participants to create online
CV for peer feedback
Lifelong
learning
• Ask students to suggest
improvement
Student
feedback

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End
Thank you!

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