Multimedia Learning
Cognitive style, hypermedia navigation and learning
Computers & Education
Thinking style, browsing primes and hypermedia navigation
Computers & Education
A blog-based dynamic learning map
Computers & Education
Towards a framework for educational affordances of blogs
Computers & Education
The educational affordances of blogs for self-directed learning
Computers & Education
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Fifty blogs were analysed and classified according to both their content and formal structure. The SOLAT questionnaire, aimed at assessing the right i.e., intuitive-holistic vs. left i.e., systematic-analytical thinking style, was put online, and blog owners were asked to complete it in order to match their cognitive style to the "style" of their blog. Respondents were also asked some metacognitive questions in order to explore their awareness of the psychological processes that are activated by the blog that they had devised, both in their own and in other people's mind. Results showed that blog owners are able to use effective communication strategies by differentiating the formal structure of bogs according to the content, but they lack metacognitive awareness about the mental processes activated by the blog. No relationship between the blog owner's cognitive style and blog style was found. Implications for the educational use of blogs are discussed.