More importantly, teachers can use Blogs as tools for group assignments that allow students to use the blogs to post material, share links, share ideas, and much more.
Theories that guide distance teaching and confirm the important uses of blogs in education.
Knowledge Building: Knowledge building is the act of participating in the construction of ideas and visions that demonstrate individual and small group learning. Learners share diverse ideas and multiple views to encourage collaborative knowledge building. At the end of the discusson, the ideas do not belong to any one individually; instead, the whole class contributesto form new ideas. Students are raised to higher levels of understanding becasue of this act of sharing and ideas and knowledge. Online discussion forums, such as blogs are very useful to create this type of distance learning and knowledge sharing.
