Using RSS 2.0 and RDF Together
This is how to do it: mix RSS, for syndication, with RDF, for data transport. The example focuses on job listings, but any sort of data can be managed in this way, including learning metadata. More...

An IMS Generator for the Masses
This is an interesting look into the possibilities transformations of data offer in the generation of individualized learning resources, no matter what the source of the data. More...

MT as Courseware?
The $39 alternative to six figure learning management systems, Moveable Type is a blogging tool that could also double as courseware. Or so this author things (and I'm inclined to agree) as she has set up a demo media course in the software and is preparing to move ahead. More...

Dispute Exposes Bitter Power Struggle Behind Web Logs
Dave Winer calls this summary of the battle over RSS "incendiary", and it's not really that, but this article doesn't pull any punches as it arrays the issues and the players for all to see. More...

Edu_RSS Chat
The third thing I would like to show you today is the Edu_RSS Chat. This is a system that takes recent posts aggregated by Edu_RSS and puts them into a synchronous online chat. Visitors to the chat room can then read the post together and discuss it online. More...

HTML RSS Viewer
My second candidate for immortaliy is a follow-up from my "How to Create An RSS Feed..." paper I wrote last week. One of the problems with RSS is that you need a viewer - or web server software - in order to read it. More...

Edu_RSS MERLOT Continuing Coverage
Today is one of the busiest days of the year in online learning; this newsletter is packed with great content (and I saved some stuff for tomorrow). Speaking of packing, I am about to get on an airplane and fly to Vancouver for the MERLOT Conference. So I want to get some business out of the way before I go. More...

A Look at Recent User Level Activity in the RSS World
The point of this interesting survey is to look at RSS adoption in the corporate and consulting community. Thus we see technology analyst firms, such as Forrester and Jupiter Research, using the format, as well as publishers, magazines and businesses. More...

RDF: Ready for Prime Time
After RSS, we will be hearing a lot about RDF (first we will hear many more long debates about whether RSS should be expressed in RDF, but never mind that). If you need an off the cuff understanding of RDF, think of it this way: XML is a way to ascribe properties to objects, while RDF is a way to make statements about objects. More...

ARIADNE Knowledge Pool System
Looking for examples of learning object metadata (LOM) to play with? Erik Duval sends this note to IFETS: You may be interested in the LOM instances generated off the ARIADNE Knowledge Pool System, using the XML binding under development at the IEEE LTSC (http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~erikd/LOM/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ieee-ltsc-lom-xml). More...