The teacher prepares new teaching material for his subject every day and of course you are subscribed to it. Tomorrow you have history, so you click on that. You are presented with information from various sources. A piece of Wikipedia text about the Roman Empire, an article with background information, a YouTube video about the gladiator games, a blog and a number of tweets from other students who have visited the Colosseum.
All in all, enough to meet the required course material, but fun, up-to-date, varied in form and with the possibility to click through to more information if you are interested. Your curiosity is stimulated. Exactly the intention of education. Moreover, it is efficient, because you do not have to lug around expensive books and it is available when and where you want.
these kinds of services, because Flipboard simply uses (among other things) list to data RSS feeds as a source. And that is supported by almost all systems. In addition, it is an ideal environment to process the news of your educational institution. Students will then see it within their learning environment and will therefore probably read it sooner.
The above tools have two important characteristics that make them successful. They are user-friendly and fit into the daily routine of the user. Current systems in education often do not have this, and are often even more of a burden, because the student has to use both his personal tools and the systems of the education. And why? There are several good free tools available for almost every need.