By: sahil kumar
RSS brings many hats - Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication-RSS or even Resource Description Framework (RDF).
RSS is basically a lightweight XML format designed for sharing Web content. As one of the simplest uses of XML, RSS has become widely disseminated. The RSS file can include a logo, a website link, an input box, and various news. Each item consists of a URL, a title and summary.
Because the data is in XML, not a display language like HTML, RSS information can be flowed into a large number of devices. Besides being used to create web pages of summary of news, RSS can be fed into stand-alone news headlines or viewers browsers, PDAs, cell phones, email ticklers and even voice updates.
RSS files are created by publishers and content are delivered to people who have subscribed to that feed through a "feed reader" application also called news aggregator. The feed reader checks the author of the contents regularly and if it is determined that the new content available on a particular site, downloads the information, called metadata, the application automatically.
An RSS aggregator is a type of software that reads RSS files regularly sets and indexes to display or organize. There are two main types of aggregates: centralized staff. Aggregators are the most common use of the channels. Web aggregators do this in a Web page. Aggregators have also been integrated into mail clients, desktop users, or independent, dedicated software. Aggregators can offer a variety of special features, including those related to the combination of several channels in a single view, hiding entries that the viewer has already seen, and categorizing feeds and entries.
RSS & Elearning
Beyond their personal use, RSS feeds can also be used to republish or syndicate the content of Internet sites. Prescient technical learning Stephen Downes discussed the usefulness of online courses with the RSS in 2000 in his article "content syndication and online learning." He wrote, "[The use of similar tools or RSS], can take any course ... so far the resources of remote sources ... [to] the content is tailored specifically for the course."
Instead of collecting the content in a central repository, which requires an expensive application software, the model of RSS content distribution via the World Wide Web, which allows access piece by piece. "For that reason," Downes said in his article "An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers", that "the distribution of content over the Internet will be much more like a network of RSS ... a content management system business. More people use the subject of distributed learning network, "not only because it is easier and cheaper, but because you can access much more content for less money."
Educational uses of RSS are many ......
subscribe to feeds on specific topics to keep
publish syndicated content websites or blogs in progress
have students create their own blogs and then subscribe to feeds for all blogs to see new content there
inform students about new courses available
update students on new internal or external resources available in a matter of training
Subscribing to channels of repositories of learning objects to see the most recently added items or items added to an issue that is developing a course.
Conclusion
Although not a perfect solution, since it has some kinks to be developed. Like the lack of digital rights management for the original articles and meta channels RSSS and inability to cope with mixed metadata. RSS has the potential to be the future of eLearning.
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