The emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the twenty-first century brought challenges as well as opportunities for the education sector to accelerate the knowledge economy – a massively impactful paradigm shift. Education is currently experiencing rapid changes due to the increase in technology-based networked communities. In order for the higher education sector to remain relevant in and compatible to this challenging society, universities need to commit themselves to the process of continuous change or become redundant. Specific dilemmas include budgetary constraints, changing student profiles, demanding quality assurance practices, efficient course delivery modes, the changing role of academics, reliable assessment practices, and the impact of globalisation. These issues place high demands on institutions of higher learning to deliver quality teaching and learning. On the other hand, exciting opportunities and possibilities arise – in particular Web 2.0 and 3.0 information technology-integrated teaching and learning sites. One particular e-learning platform myUnisa, which uses blogs as a social media tool, emerged as a technology-integrated teaching strategy to support students in an open distance-learning approach. From the outset, blogs have served as personal social networking tools. More recently, blogs have facilitated the formation of online social networked communities and have thus expanded to more extensive uses in education. This paper explores the usefulness of blogs in supporting Postgraduate Certificate of Education and Bachelor of Education students who are learning to teach Economics in open distance-learning environments.