Something I am exploring with e-learning and RSS
Tags :Lotus Workplace
We host a ton of e-learning for Lotus products
here through what was LearningSpace and now into Lotus Workplace and the
LMS (still). To give a quick catch-up before I ramble on, basically
when you log into LearningSpace as a student you have a page that covers
"My courses". Well instead of building this over and over,
plus all the custom pages that companies want for courses, I decided that
embarking at a better automated way was the answer. So it came to
me today as I was in Trillian reading blogs. Yes Trillian. I
was reading feeds.
Well it hit me, why not have each course
as an RSS stream for the synopsis, objectives and syllabus all put into
a personal page. SO as it changes in the course the homepage for
the student then gets updated dynamically through RSS. The teacher
no longer has to worry about static information on the pages that the students
will see. This also affects changes to schedules and what will be
covered when. Classroom discussions could be RSS or even portlets
in the course itself.
So I am starting this path, anyone already
done something like this?
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On Thursday, August 26th, 2004 by Chris Miller
