Teaching Staff Factor

Yesterday, I was discussing with two of my colleagues who were trying out a blog system for their classroom teaching this semester. We were discussing about the survey results which we retrieved from the VLE. An interesting point that I highlighted to them was the possibility of their teaching styles or methods were influencing student perception on blogging as a learning tool. This was quite evident from the simple comparison we made of the feedback gathered from the three groups of students who were taught by my three colleagues. Incidentally, the general pattern was that one was very strict in facilitation, another one gave the students a free hand and in between another who had a mixture of guided activities and the freedom to blog away from the recommended scope recommended. We talked how this could be a vital factor in explaining the patterns of feedback we received from the survey.