The Use of Blog in Decision Making Skills Course

AbstractBlogs are normally used as a personal online journal. In the context of teaching and learning, blogs serve as an important tool to facilitate students’ learning. Decision Making Skills is one of the courses that utilises blogs as part of teaching. In comparison with webpages, the blogs are more interactive, userfriendly and can be easily updated. It also can be embedded in SPIN learning management system and can be made more interesting using online forms, hyperlinks, video and audioclips, and widgets. In order to investigate the use of blog in managing an academic course, a case study of Decision Making Skills elective course was used as a case study. A blog called ZT2263 Kemahiran Membuat Keputusan was created. Learning materials such as lecture slides, relevant articles and students’ tutorial answers were placed The blog also embeds widgets for communication. This new approach received positive feedback from students. This paper aims to report the author's experience in using the blog