Open Educational Content/olcos/Tutorial1 Use Open Content/Agents

Another option for keeping up-to-date with ODEC is the use of so called agents or alerting services. After filling out a profile where you specify your interest through keywords or terms the agent informs you when he has found new resources for your profile. Another term for such an agent in the search context is a bot or an alerting service.

Assignment

Visit the website of searchbots and configure your personal agent for your profile!

Web Resources

1.) Björn Hermans (1997). Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: An Inventory of Currently Offered Functionality in the Information Society and a Prediction of (Near) Future Developments. First Monday. Vol.2 No.3 - March 3rd. 1997. 2.) UMBC AgentWeb 3.) GoogleAlters