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Edu_RSS MERLOT Continuing Coverage

Aug 04, 2003
Commentary by Stephen Downes

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.

CRLFWith all the activity in this field, it's pretty hard to be the first at anything. It's even harder to know when you've been first. That said, I'm making my pitch today for a Hat Trick of world firsts. Yup, three innovations, each of which is - so far as I can tell - a world first. Now I may be wrong, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.

CRLFThe first of these is this link. Edu_RSS MERLOT Continuing Coverage is live coverage of the upcoming MERLOT conference. This page collects comments about the MERLOT 2003 conference written by individual webloggers and posted to their own weblogs. The RSS files of those weblogs are collected by Edu_RSS, searched for relevant content, and displayed here as an HTML file. The system is completely automatic; I can just turn it on and forget about it. Have a look, and if you're interested, follow the conference blogs.

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