Mobile learning…what’s the deal?
Categories: Products, Project Tin Can, SCORM, SCORM 2004, SCORM 2004, SCORM Cloud, SCORM Cloud, SCORM Engine, SCORM Engine, Software Development
18 Jun 2013
mLearnCon 2013 is happening right now, and we thought this would be a good time to write about some related topics:
Mobile learning. M-learning. Native apps. Tablets. Smart phones. Offline e-learning. HTML 5.
These are all terms that we’ve been hearing a lot about in the e-learning community, but where do we really stand with all of these different things, especially when talking about trackable and standards-conformant learning?
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There are some deployment scenarios that SCORM makes difficult. One of them in particular is when you have content on one domain, and an LMS on a different domain. There are several solutions for this with varying merits, and all of them require effort of some sort. Further, cross domain solutions aren’t necessary in most cases. For these reasons, addressing “cross domain” scenarios is specifically excluded in some of our SCORM Engine licenses.
Why the cross-domain limitation, and how can you get around it?
Basically, SCORM requires that content be served from the same domain as the LMS API. Browsers intentionally prevent the javascript in the content from communicating with the SCORM API if they originate from different domains. This is intentional on the part of the browser makers because it’s a security risk.
If you control both domains (content and LMS), then this security risk shouldn’t be a particular concern to you, but that’s not easy to convey to everyone’s browsers. There are several ways to deal with cross-domain situations, all of which have downsides.
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From Kentucky to Kraków
Categories: Clients, Ideas and Thoughts, SCORM Cloud, SCORM Engine, SCORM Engine
4 Oct 2011
There’s a new TV show “Around the World in 80 Ways” that challenges 2 guys to use 80 different modes of transportation to circumnavigate the globe. We’re not trying to do that, but we do want to see our SCORM solutions adopted around the world and eliminate the hurdles that come with internationalization.
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PENS: Turbo Charging Your eLearning
Categories: SCORM Cloud, SCORM Cloud, SCORM Engine, SCORM Engine, Standards Evolution, Using the Standards
11 Jul 2011
These days, with one click, you can buy a song from iTunes and automatically sync it to your iPod. Remember how long it used to take to buy a CD, burn the songs to your computer and transfer them to your MP3 player? Just think about how much time you saved from this one little improvement- more time to listen to your music, which is what you wanted to do in the first place.
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It’s that time again…we just announced the availability of our latest SCORM Engine version, v2010.1. And, yes, I know you’re thinking: “BUT, it’s 2011 now dummy”. Of course, you’re right, but only because this blog post was delayed a few days while we migrated our site to a new server…I promise, we really did put it out in 2010 
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But, really, who cares about the name? There’s some really good stuff in this release. You can find the full release notes from either our SCORM Engine History page or on our support site (you do know you can subscribe to product notifications there, right?).
I’m most excited about the two new standards we now support: LETSI RTWS and PENS.
LETSI RTWS is a web services communication framework that alleviates some of the common technical barriers SCORM imposes on content deployments. RTWS is a huge step towards enabling remote content hosting, games, simulations, virtual worlds, offline content, secure communications and mobile delivery.
PENS is a standard that allows for the automatic publishing and import of content. With a PENS enabled authoring tool, you can publish new or updated content to your LMS with a single click.
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