I just spent 5 minutes setting up this blog to show how easy it is. This has been done for a chapter called 'The loneliness of the long distance student: supervising students you rarely see'. So, if you've landed up here, you might have followed a link from the book. Unlikely until it is published.
The chapter really builds on a whole set of experiments I have been doing in using e-learning at The Open University. It all started with a HEFCE funded project called PARLE (Politics Active Research Learning Environment), and although I wouldn't advocate spending a quarter of a million pounds on e-learning tools, there is plenty of scope for a budget version of e-learning that, in my opinion, everybody can manage.
So, how hard is it to set up an e-learning blog? Not hard at all. It's taken me 10 minutes and I'm about to post my first blog.
