Logbook has been in use for many years and mostly for keeping records and these records could be personal or official. Anyone keeping record defines the criteria and the format it will take. For training institutions format of a logbook is well laid out for students to just fill in blank spaces. This has a lot of limitations. However, logbook is usually paper based and few digital logbooks available placed a number of restrictions on the user such that they are not very useful for industrial training. This paper looks at logbook in diverse ways and it was a product of a research conducted at the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Lagos Nigeria. This will expose the reader to a number of salient details often ignored about logbook

1. LOGBOOK FOR INDUSTRIAL
SUPERVISION AND TRAINING-A LOOK
AT PAPER AND DIGITAL LOGBOOKS.
Olubodun, O.J.
University of Lagos,
College of Medicine,
Faculty of Dental Sciences,
Lagos Nigeria.

2. INTRODUCTION &
BACKGROUND
Technical and Vocational Education
Google Images
and Industrial Training.
Paper and Digital Logbooks.
What are they used for?
Rationale for this Study.
Kind of industrial training experience.

3. Questions
In the end we should be able to answer the
following questions:
 What is logbook and the types that are available.
 What are the differences between paper and
digital logbooks.
 How can logbook contribute to supervision and
training?
 What is BT logbook?

4. Types of Logbooks
Logbook as:
•Paper Logbook
•Digital
logbook which could be a software and non-
software, accessible either offline or online.
•As technological Devices.

5. Digital logbooks
Digital logbook for Transport and Marine
Industries K-Log electronic
Logbook

6. Digital logbook
Allowing no video, picture and audio option

7. Offline Digital Logbook

8. Offline Digital Logbook

9. Space Limitation for Paper
Logbook

10. Sample Paper Logbook

11. Highlight of findings
 Limited spaces for description of lab activities taught and performed.
 No spaces in some cases for drawing.
 Burden of having to carrying logbook around every day and from one department of posting to
another.
 Entries are limited to description and drawing of lab procedures.
 Logbook becomes rough and untidy as a result of making changes to entries earlier made.
 Logbook becomes torn because of carrying it from one department of posting to another.
 Unwillingness on the part of students to share ideas on entries made to logbook.
 School supervisors unable to see logbook until students are back to school at the end of
programme and hence cannot follow progress of student’s learning experiences.
 Industrial supervisors show limited understanding of the best ways to pass comments on
student’s work.
 Entries are sometimes made in a rough paper before transferring it to the main logbook which
sometimes may be lost.
 Students could make changes at will and sometimes entries may not reflect the actual learning
experiences gained at work.
 Students sometimes present ‘doctored’ report at the end of the programme which does not
represent the actual learning experiences.
 Students have difficulties making drawings and may ‘mess’ up pages and leave them rough.

12. BT Digital Logbook

13. BT Digital Logbook
Google and Blogger account pages

14. Twitter Sign-up and Entry
Page

15. Comparing Paper and BT
Digital Logbooks 1
Advantages of paper logbook Advantages of BT digital logbook
 A definitive pattern for students to
easily make entries  Open resources could be built over a period
 Drawing and writing abilities are of time
enhanced  Learning experiences could be presented in
different formats e.g. video, photos etc.
 Entries not made at due date
could still be made without  There is no strict pattern for making entries
anyone noting it was once omitted and the blog space leaves the students the
initiative to decide how entries will be made.
 Entries could be made with ease  Digital logbook remains in a public domain
as this does not depend on and could add to the body of knowledge.
Internet connectivity. Logbook is
always accessible.  Digital logbook remains the intellectual
property of the author and can be kept for
 Entries when altered are as long as he wants.
noticeable and this could give  Co-construction of knowledge and
idea of students’ attempts to resources among students is possible.
presenting his work well and that  Collaboration among students on projects
he actually did make the entries could take place across wider boundaries.
Sources: wwww.elearningeuropa.info
Sources: wwww.elearningeuropa.info

16. Comparing Paper and BT Digital
Logbooks 2
Constraints of BTdigital logbook Constraints of paper logbook
 Students need to have training on the use  Insufficient space for description of learning
of blog and twitter and devices for making experiences.
video and entry.
 Learning experiences can only be
 Poor Internet connectivity could hinder or represented by drawing and writing
delay entries and uploading files may pose
serious difficulties  Learning experiences cannot easily be
shared among students and with others like
 Extra cost for procuring Internet services. teachers back in the school
 Students could fine tune entries and give  Paper logbook subject to being torn as it is
false impression of skills acquired carried from one supervisors to another
 Students could easily be assisted by during deployment and re-deployment.
anyone if entries could earn him higher  Students could lose logbook if not well kept.
marks by his assessor.
 Making changes to entries could leave
 Students could upload works not done by logbook rough and untidy.
him from any sources and claiming it is his
work.  Student do not have freedom to make
entries of learning experiences in a way he
 Student’s ability to hand drawing which is a chooses. There is strict pattern for making
required skill in dental technology training entries
could be limited.
Source: wwww.elearningeuropa.info
Source: wwww.elearningeuropa.info

17. Sequence of a Dental Lab
Procedure.
Acrylic Denture Repair

18. Model Making Procedure

19. Logbook as training and
supervision Manual
It serves as a training manual for supervisors to guide
students learning activities by correcting entries made into their
logbook and by having idea of progress made and the
constraints had when learning a procedure.
It affords the students the spaces for clearly explaining the
details of procedures mastered.
It affords the industrial supervisors the opportunity for
ascertaining level of progress made by the students in
understanding a procedure.
It affords the students the opportunity of noting the connection
between experiences learnt in the school and those at the
industrial training centres
It affords the students the opportunity of building a pool of
resources for future reference.
It is a tool for collaboration.

20. Conclusion
 Logbook is very important in technical and vocational training and in all other professions
where technical skills are required of a professional. For example in the health sector a
medical surgeon in an operation theatre need to be dexterous in the use of tools and
equipment for his work. Professionals in the engineering profession and other laboratory
related arts need to develop manual dexterity for manipulation of materials for handling tools
and equipment and for doing something. Industrial training or similar training programmes is
always necessary for students of vocational training schools in order to merge theory with
practice in real life situation.
 The use of logbook for students to represent experiences gained during industrial training and
therefore put them in perspective is one among so many other reasons that make the use of
logbook an important aspect of industrial training. Paper based logbook is however not the
best in today’s technology driven society. This study found that digital logbook if well untilised
will be more suitable for learners of the present technology age most of who already could
operate some of the common technological devices like phones, computer and other hand-
held devices for making entries into a digital logbook. Although technical and vocational
education schools and colleges have not embraced the use of digital logbook it is hoped that
sooner than later it will be embraced.
 The future of technical and vocational education training (TVET) will be positively impacted
with students’ industrial training using digital logbook for collaborative learning and for creation
of open resources. BT logbook is a novel idea for digitizing industrial training experiences. It
cost little or nothing and provides many opportunities for students both for personal use or
school work. The school may not need to have a web presence to have their students use BT
logbook and so schools from poor countries could use it as well.

21. References
 http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-42770536/stock-photo-an-
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 http://www.elogbook.net/
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 Paper Logbook School of Health Sciences Ijebu-Ilese Ogun State
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 Google image Industrial training Site
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22. Thank you for Listening.
ojolubodun@cmul.edu.ng