Web 2.0 Tools in Higher Education : A Case Study on Educational Blogs

One of the tools used in teaching Sociology and Communication Studies at the Sapientia University from Miercurea Ciuc, Romania is educational blogging. We propose a retrospective look at the opportunities and challenges faced by a "digital immigrant" educator [1] when trying to integrate multimedial, hypertextual and interactive web-based applications in teaching university students. We present five years of positive and negative experiences in using educational blogs in order to highlight the changes occurred both in formal and informal communication channels in the age of Web 2.0 enabled personalized learning environments