Mary Harrsch from the Michigan Virtual University suggests that RSS could be the next killer app for education.
I’m in the process of writing an online learning management system and I am placing RSS feeds throughout the application. Students can get assignment details, discussion group updates and unit descriptions all through a single RSS feed. It’s hard to think of a better content dissemination system that is in as wide usage today as RSS, and it’s also free.
Using it for education is a terrific idea considering that all content delivered via any media at all lends itself perfectly to RSS. I love it when a new technology comes out of left field and threatens to really shake up the status quo of the non-tech world in a positive way.
