SJR Teacher/Learners

I instead encourage faculty to start by adding a blog to their class. A blog can be set up in minutes and is easy to learn and maintain. Plus, there are a variety of studies proving that blogging can improve educational outcomes. For instance:

students post their written work to a blog before handing it in. The students received comments from other students and even faculty at other institutions, which improved their work greatly.

These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored.

In fact, Wave is extremely powerful groupware, designed to facilitate the interactions of groups working together on projects