Research data on students attitudes towards blogging.

127 students were asked if they used some form of blogging at home. The results are as follows.

The same students were also asked whether or not they would be willing to use blogs in a learning environment. The results are as follows.

From this information, although from a very small sample size, you can see that there is a willingness to use blogging in class, as well as prior knowledge on how blogging works, suggesting the learning curve being quite small.