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Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
Defined as Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.9x), RDF Site Summary (RSS1.0), Really Simple Syndication (RSS2.0). Through RSS, short descriptions of articles or web pages can be represented in machine readable form (XML) and regularly delivered by a news repository. It is also called a newsfeed. This way changes and updates in one site are automatically fed to subscribers, see http://www.atompub.org/ and http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssChangeNotes (06/14/2006)
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Weblogs in Higher Education
Werner Beuschel (Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-208-4.ch004
Abstract
Weblogs are a popular form of Social Software, supporting personal Web authoring as well as innovative forms of social interaction via internet. The potential of Weblogs to emphasize active student participation and collaboration raises great expectations for a new pedagogical quality in higher education. In this chapter, the author explores the value of Social Software, specifically Weblogs, for learning and teaching in institutional education. An exploratory study serves as background for the discussion. Critical issues and areas of research for using Social Software in education are concluding the chapter.
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