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Using Blogs as a Teaching Tool in Negotiation
Author(s) -
Macduff Ian
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2008.00210.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , negotiation , mediation , computer mediated communication , class (philosophy) , promotion (chess) , psychology , the internet , public relations , computer science , internet privacy , world wide web , sociology , political science , paleontology , social science , artificial intelligence , politics , law , biology
This article reports on the experimental use of blogs as a teaching tool in a course on negotiation and mediation. The blogs were of two kinds: individual “journal” blogs accessible only by the student author and the course instructor, and a class or collective blog, accessible by all members of the course. The use of blogs builds on the familiar use of journals as a tool for reflection and personal review and adopts the technology of online communication with which the student body is increasingly familiar and comfortable. The article reports on the student response to this development and the perceived impact on extended peer‐to‐peer communication, cooperation, and skills development. This note also briefly places this experiment in the wider context of the widespread use of blogging, online social networking, and — more ambitiously — the promotion of critical and deliberative skills through the use of information communications technology.