The research aimed at exploring the influence of cooperative learning combined with Global Logistics Management curriculum through “Blog” on enhancing technological students’ industry-oriented competency. In addition, how student’s self-feeling about generic skills/knowledge (competence), professional competence and workforce competence through the use of Blogs was also investigated. The research adopted a quasi-experiment of unequal controlling group design. The researchers selected two classes of senior students in a technological university in Taiwan as subjects. One class was assigned as the control group, and the other was experimental group.
Twenty two students were assigned to the experimental group with blog-cooperative learning treatment that took two periods per week during nine weeks, while twenty eight students were in the control group with traditional teaching activities.
The researcher adapted the Scale of Graduate’s Industrial Oriented Competence (SGIOC) to collect experimental data on business and management majored university students. Data collected were subsequently analyzed by the independent t-test, and paired samples t-test. The results indicated that the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on the total score of items: using computers, communication, language skills, problem-analysis and problem-solving, production and operation management, customer relationship management, E-commerce applications, team work, self-learning, leadership, and work ethics. The results can provide instrumental guidelines to improve the future technological education.
