Education RSS StyleSep28

Brooks Jordan 0 comments

If you're looking for a good example of how a large organization can push training and education out to its people via RSS and podcasts, perhaps look at how UC Berkeley is doing it.

  Webcast.Berkeley 
  Originally uploaded by brooksjor.

Foundations of American Cyberculture. History of Information. Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information. These are all classes that you can monitor through a feed, and when you see a lecture you think is relevant (e.g., "Open Source and the General Public License"), you can download and listen to the MP3 or subscribe via iTunes.

I'm listening to "The Distributed Network 2," one class from Foundations of American Cyberculture, right now about how some young people are aggressively using text messaging to supplement classroom learning ("fifty messages per student per hour"), and I'm learning something.

So Webcast.Berkeley will surely offer some good clues to you and your company about how to push what's most recent and need to know to large numbers of people internally. We know of more than one thinking seriously about this kind of delivery model.