The Effect of Weblog on Cooperative Learning of Students of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

The present research aims to study the effect of using weblog on cooperative learning. The participants included 37 students of Allameh Tabataba’i University studying the second semester of educational management in the year 2010-2011 who had passed the course ‘educational technology’. This was a single case study, and the research instrument was the Cooperative Learning Implementation Questionnaire. The data was analyzed using one-sample t-test. The results showed that using weblogs as cooperative learning instruments significantly affected the rate of cooperative learning and all its components (including positive interdependence, individual accountability, group processing, social skills, and interactions). The present study makes some suggestions on how to use a weblog with the aim of cooperative learning.