Comments on: RSS injects edu with accuracy, freshness, and cool stuff http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/ How the best knowledge gets to everybody to learn Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tony Hirst http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-51593 Tony Hirst Fri, 23 May 2008 15:21:51 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/#comment-51593 MIT are only making feeds available of links to MIT courses. The OpenLearn OER site from the Open University actually makes the course content available as RSS feeds - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php If you want to see what MIT courses might look like if they were made available via a feed, I have a demo here: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012453.html I also did a demo using Yale content, but they have changed their content URLs, and my screenscrapers also appear to have rotted. I've also posted about how course material authored in a blog is self-disaggregating via RSS feeds - http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/013966.html MIT are only making feeds available of links to MIT courses. The OpenLearn OER site from the Open University actually makes the course content available as RSS feeds – http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php

If you want to see what MIT courses might look like if they were made available via a feed, I have a demo here: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012453.html

I also did a demo using Yale content, but they have changed their content URLs, and my screenscrapers also appear to have rotted.

I’ve also posted about how course material authored in a blog is self-disaggregating via RSS feeds – http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/013966.html

]]> By: Judy Breck http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-51578 Judy Breck Fri, 23 May 2008 09:57:19 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/#comment-51578 Thank you Scott. Very interesting! Adding these principles into the education tools has huge potential for improving learning. Thank you Scott. Very interesting! Adding these principles into the education tools has huge potential for improving learning.

]]> By: RSS For Your Project Web Site « UK Web Focus http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-51576 RSS For Your Project Web Site « UK Web Focus Fri, 23 May 2008 07:01:12 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/#comment-51576 [...] Stephen linked to a blog post on RSS injects edu with accuracy, freshness, and cool stuff which gives an example of how RSS can be [...] [...] Stephen linked to a blog post on RSS injects edu with accuracy, freshness, and cool stuff which gives an example of how RSS can be [...]

]]> By: scott lewis http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-51195 scott lewis Fri, 09 May 2008 01:25:34 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/05/07/rss-injects-edu-with-accuracy-freshness-and-cool-stuff/#comment-51195 Another possible use of RSS in education is to use it communicate web "trails", a sequence of websites visited during research. This idea actually goes back to Vannebar Bush in the 1940s, and was one of the inspiration for Douglas Engelbart's work at www.bootstrap.org. I've developed some software that, among other things, makes producing these "trails" fairly easy to do. It's called Xenos, and you can download a beta copy from my website <a href="http://metanews.biz/html/xenos/xenosIndex.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Another possible use of RSS in education is to use it communicate web “trails”, a sequence of websites visited during research. This idea actually goes back to Vannebar Bush in the 1940s, and was one of the inspiration for Douglas Engelbart’s work at http://www.bootstrap.org. I’ve developed some software that, among other things, makes producing these “trails” fairly easy to do. It’s called Xenos, and you can download a beta copy from my website here.

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