1. Can Microblogs and Weblogs
change traditional scientific
writing?
Martin Ebner, Hermann Maurer

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5. Technology enhanced Learning
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6. uLearning
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7. „Our students have changed
radically. Today‘s students are no
longer the people our educational
system was designed to teach.“
Mark Prenksy 2001
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8. Mobile
Information
Society?

9. Mobile Learning?
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10. http://www.jaiku.com
http://www.pownce.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://identi.ca/ http://www.plurk.com
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Microblogging & the consequences
Martin Ebner

11. Weblogs and
Microblogs -
Enhancing
lecturing?
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12. First - the Study

13. Course „Social Aspects of Information Technology“:
• - Obligatory for students of informatics during
bachelor program
• - 200 students listening to 17 different
presentations
• - In recent years students have to write two
essays

14. Second - the didactical concept

15. Three crucial factors:
• - Reflection of the given presentations
• - Discussion for different perspectives
• - Quality by arguing using scientific rules,
methods and approaches

17. Third - the technical concept

18. Learning Management System

19. The Weblogs

20. The Integrated Microblogs

21. Evaluation results

22. Research Question 1:
Before the start of the lecture
- did not know about Microbloggin (1)
- have already heard about Microblogging (2)
- have already used Microblogging for at least
once (3)
- have already been an active Microblogger (4)
1 2 3 4
Students 128 (86%) 17 (11%) 2 (1,5%) 2 (1,5%)

23. Research Question 2:
Have you ever read your reviews you
got from your colleagues?
Yes No
Scientific Writer 79% 21%
Blogger 49% 51%

24. Research Question 3:
What do you think about the use of
Microblogging in Higher Education?
- Maybe useful for virtual announcements
- Exchange of information
- Useful for fast discussions
- Help to share links and ideas
- Useful to pointing to a Weblog contribution
- Problem is maybe the public nature
- Sharing thougths with different people
- New kind of information flow
- Microblogging is a more interactive media
between people of same interests

25. Reflection / Discussion / Quality?
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26. It is about a communication,
collaboration, social networking
- in a very, very new way
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Microblogging & the consequences
Martin Ebner

27. SOCIAL LEARNING
Graz University of Technology
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
Hermann Maurer
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