RSS and Education: The Current Hype

"The educational weblog community has been hyping a recent Technology Source article by Mary Harrsch that touts RSS, a protocol that enables weblog syndication and aggregation, as "the next killer app for education". Given that the weblog community is intimately familiar with RSS as a technology, it's not surprising that a number of people think that RSS will somehow revolutionize the education world. But the hype is a bit overblown. In my mind, RSS is an interesting technology in search of a killer educational application. But Harrsch's article has served to start a discussion within the community about these issues, one that will hopefully continue."

(bron)