Aggregating student blogs with edufeedr: Lessons learned from the first tryouts

Abstract

EduFeedr is a specially designed feed reader for following, managing and supporting the learning activities in blog-based courses. This paper describes the technical implementation of EduFeedr and discusses the results of the initial evaluation after using the prototype with real learners. The main challenges were related with limitations of Web content syndication technologies while aggregating blog posts and comments from course blogs. This paper proposes solutions to overcome these limitations.