Tumbling through tertiary education: an investigation of the use of Tumblr within a child development course

E-learning emphasizes collaborative learning through the use of Web 2.0. The tools of Web 2.0 advocate open collaboration, interactive technology, and personalized learning that promotes expanding the scope of teacher/student/course interaction, as well as advancing the social construction of knowledge, an important component of socio-cultural theory. Using writing as inquiry, we investigated the usefulness of using Tumblr (a microblog) as a...