Interest in the use of weblogs in education has grown over the past several years. Educators are discovering that weblogs allow them to easily update content and to share the content they create with other faculty, in and out of their particular institutions.

Some educators choose to use weblog software instead of traditional course management tools, such as WebCT, Blackboard and others, due to the closed nature of the latter. These educators may prefer that their course content be openly available and shareable with colleagues. They may also want discussions or student work to be carried over and available after a specific course ends. Weblogs are not closed environments and allow content to remain after a course ends.

It is also possible to use weblog content within WebCT and Blackboard. This provides many interesting options for educators, including adding dynamic content to a course and sharing content across multiple courses within a degree program.

Student publishing is an attractive use of weblogs. Educators may require student responses to course topics be added to a weblog and encourage other students add their comments using weblog's built in commenting feature. In some courses, full essays or papers may be published directly to a course weblog. Some educators use weblogs as required reading or as a repository of course resources.

There is also an abundance of webloggers writing on various education topics. An important use of weblog software is development and participation in academic community.