Some lecturers in NUS have used blogs for their courses, as well as to keep track of their research students.
Blogs are especially useful for popular courses taken up by a large number of undergraduates. Instead of setting up tutorials for all students, they conduct some of the tutorials online, by adding their comments to a discussion set out in a blog. Marks will be awarded based on their responses at the end of the courses.
Looks like the students are embracing blogs quite well, as seen from the responses. Read the article for the full report in STI.
And thanks Agnes for pointing me to the article 🙂
The article can be found in the local archive here.