In many cases the process of creating RSS is being automated and, used in tandem with learning platforms, presents a possible future scenario for disseminating highly specialised and personalised learning content Educational resources can be indexed and distributed in a learning object network.
RSS is likely to come to the fore in education for three reasons:
1) As teachers ' expertise with multimedia learning objects grows, they will be looking for a cheap, useful distribution network to populate their lessons and courses. RSS could provide this and the means to find people and services allied to these resources and also provide a ' push mechanism'
for people to disseminate their resources on a just-in-time and archived basis for others - centralised resources can be tailored for localisation in courseware, for example, by tweaking and modification.
2) Syndicated educational content could be one future of resourcing, for being able to syndicate images, videos and weblogs easily and freely across systems and networks, and to update and archive them in real time as well as aggregate them and attach relevant tags, could be a very powerful way forward for online learning. This is especially true if the process is linked to peer-to-peer communication systems whereby the learners themselves produce content, tags and resources, and aggregate or reflect on the accumulation of knowledge around these. This has serious implications for staff resourcing, training, professional development and a host of other applications - especially in tandem with CMS (content management systems) or learning platforms.