Catching up on e-mail (I fell behind while on the road), I found this from Bud Gibson, assistant professor of business information technology at the University of Michigan (I’m in the process of reading Bud’s synopsis, which is fascinating):

I’ve noticed you have an interest in blogging in education from your posts on: blogging at Auburn, the BBC report on the impact of blogging in academia, and the effect of blogging homework in middle schools.

Last Fall, at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, we developed a “learning blogosphere” to help students communicate with each other and the professor.  Students kept blogs, and we also took them and aggregated the RSS feeds together in various ways to present different views of the blogosphere and invited guests, not too unlike what you described in a recent podcast for PR and CEO blogs.

Just today (March 1), I published the first part of a synopsis of our experience under the title, “A Learning Blogosphere (1):  Into the Deep” with this abstract:

“In Fall 2004, I developed a distributed learning blogosphere for non-technical students at the University of Michigan. Ninety-five percent of participants felt blogging improved their learning. Here I provide the hard, pragmatic lessons we learned in getting community interaction to work. In follow-on posts, I will provide quantitative analysis of how blogging shaped the class.”