Since 2000, when Weblogs became widely available, a surprisingly wide variety of blog uses can
be observed in the higher education and research arenas. Researchers, academics, teachers, and
students are excitedly embracing blogs.
In the field of higher education in particular, where online asynchronous communication has
taken place, either through email or discussion boards, blogs have been used in a number of
different roles, which have both extended and in some instances replaced existing online
communication tools. This has indicated the usefulness of blogs as communication and/or
cognitive tools for specific disciplines, such as language learning, journalism and communication
studies, academic research, law, higher education in general, and teachers’ professional
development