What does it mean to be a blogger in the field of training and development? In this innovative research project, Kristina Schenider takes an in-depth look at five edubloggers from an insider’s perspective. Using a qualitative design methodology, Schneider paints a unique portrait, pitting bloggers against their readers, and uncovers the essence of presence, credibility and professional development in the blogosphere. The result, based on a cross-case analysis that took place over a four month period, identifies the key phenomena of motivation, writing style, community building and other general practices that define the professional who also happens to be a blogger. Finally a substantial set of questions emerge about the nature of blog content and readership.
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Kristina Schneider is an organizational learning and performance technologist, merging instructional and systems technology with knowledge, project and operations management. Currently, she is the Director of Operations at Aviation Strategies International (ASI), a small yet highly reputable Montreal-based aviation management consulting and training firm with an international network of associates and business clientele.
After completing a Master's degree in Educational Technology, Kristina is now pursuing Doctoral studies in Business Administration at the Université de Sherbrooke, focusing on organizational strategies for knowledge management and transfer as well as professional communities of practice concurrently with her role at ASI.
Kristina's first book, Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers, was published in March 2010 and has already been well received and recommended by the educational technology community. As a recognized expert in her field, Kristina was invited to join the team of contributors at Brandon Hall's Workplace Learning Today where she will be a member and an active blogger.
She brings to the table over ten years of professional training and development expertise in the areas of instructional design and development for e-learning, blended learning and distance education, organizational learning and professional development strategies, social learning applications, performance technology, knowledge management and transfer, communities of practice and other collective expertise networks.
After completing a Master's degree in Educational Technology, Kristina is now pursuing Doctoral studies in Business Administration at the Université de Sherbrooke, focusing on organizational strategies for knowledge management and transfer as well as professional communities of practice concurrently with her role at ASI.
Kristina's first book, Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers, was published in March 2010 and has already been well received and recommended by the educational technology community. As a recognized expert in her field, Kristina was invited to join the team of contributors at Brandon Hall's Workplace Learning Today where she will be a member and an active blogger.
She brings to the table over ten years of professional training and development expertise in the areas of instructional design and development for e-learning, blended learning and distance education, organizational learning and professional development strategies, social learning applications, performance technology, knowledge management and transfer, communities of practice and other collective expertise networks.
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A must read for blogging beginners,
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This review is from: Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers (Paperback)
I have been thinking about starting my own blog, either on performance improvement or to follow my sons journey through minor hockey. While I still have not decided on the topic, I do have a clearly articulated set of best practices, tips, tricks and examples to get my blog set up and started on the right foot thanks to this book!
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Blogs Illustrated,
This review is from: Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers (Paperback)
For all the quasi-instantaneous ubiquity that blogs have enjoyed, and the subsequent books that have been written directing you on how best to jump on the bandwagon, no one has seems to have sidestepped the mania to offer a thorough and objective examination of the surging web phenomenon. This is where Edublogging comes in. Focusing on blogging in education (indeed, with blogs, you GOT TO focus SOMEWHERE!) Kristina Schneider uses research methodologies to turn the tables on blogging by scientifically examining blogging itself.Now don't let my mention of science throw discourage you; it CAN be done in an interesting manner! And this is certainly the case with Edublogging. We start with an insightful contextualization of blogging, where the seemingly out-of-nowhere phenomenon is revealed as the latest descendant in the family tree of learning community tools. We then switch to a fun, reality-show-reminiscent introduction to five bloggers, who were interviewed about who exactly they are, what their purpose for blogging is, what they write about, and so on. Through these interviews, and tracking of their blogs, Kristina then goes about painting the landscape of the blogosphere, discerning recurring characteristics to offer vital statistics on blogging such as the profile of a typical (edu)blogger, and the tendencies and caveats of their blogs. Of particular interest to those of us in academia is her addressing of pivotal issue: credibility. In a world where anyone can write anything for everyone else on Earth to read, what level of validity do blogs get accorded by academic institutions and other professional establishments that undergo multiple levels of rigor and quality assurance before emitting their first peep? I enjoyed and appreciated Edublogging for its inaugural contribution to the academic literature on its topic, and for its ease in reading DESPITE being a contribution to academic literature! I deduct one star (In actuality three quarters of one, but this isn't an option here...) only because in deducing patterns and forming conclusions, Edublogging repeats interview excerpts, while I felt that this could have been accomplished in a sleeker manner; perhaps with some nifty instructional design visuals. I'm not worried about Kristina's future works however; as a rare guest blogger herself for Brandon Hall Research, she is writing all the time, improving as we speak.
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