1. RSS a 10 minute presentation for the Bloomsbury Colleges Mira Vogel Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit
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4. Glossary RSS Doesn’t matter (Really Simple Syndication) Feed Data format for frequently updated content; allows syndication, aggregation and subscription Software to capture feeds and makes them readable by humans Aggregator aka Reader Subscribe Select feeds to display in your aggregator. Selecting feeds to display in the aggregator you use. Subscribe Software to capture feeds and makes them readable by humans Aggregator Data format for frequently updated content; allows syndication and subscription Feed Doesn’t matter (Really Simple Syndication) RSS Meaning Term
21. e.g. CCK11, a MOOC Dave Cormier UPEI Stephen Downes National Research Council & Uni of Manitoba George Siemens Uni of Manitoba
22. e.g. CCK11, a MOOC Massive – scales up, network of facts improves with numbers Open – diversity and numbers Online – distribution, autonomy Course – events in time, together
24. “ reduce the friction” “ splice information together in different contexts” Pull in blog objects… … turn them into discussion objects… … feed them back to the original post. e.g. CCK11, a MOOC
Academics stand to lose if practice is standardised. Losses include professional identity, initiative, a sense of autonomy, personal and disciplinary principles and discretion to teach contingently. The ensuing sense of personal loss, anxiety and unfulfilment is a risk to academia.
Also version control. One thing existing in one place means that if there’s a change only one thing needs to be edited.
I really enjoyed listening to Steven Downes and George Siemens’ final elluminate session where they reflected on what had gone right and what they wanted to change, and things centred on this RSS tool. Not only allow people to effortlessly pull in the contributions from their diverse sources, and repurpose them, cross reference them and so on, but also to pull in blog objects, turn them into discussion objects, and perhaps most ground breaking and important of all, to feed them back to the original post. I
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