If you’ve been paying close attention, you may have noticed a prerelease of our latest SCORM Cloud feature, support for IMS BLTI plus Simple Outcomes.
BLTI provides a simple way for LMS users to incorporate remote tools into their system. Think of it as a super-simple plugin architecture.
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Project Update: Tin Can is ready
Categories: Ideas and Thoughts, Project Tin Can, SCORM, Standards Evolution
14 Sep 2011
SCORM is over 10 years old. A while ago, ADL (the keepers of SCORM) asked us to research what the next-generation e-learning specification could/should look like.
We’ve been gathering information from the entire e-learning community about what you’d like to see in the next specification. Many of you already know about this, and many of you have participated.
We have our solution — it’s the Tin Can API.
The Tin Can API solves a lot of problems that older specifications suffered from, but it also adds new capabilities, new business cases, and new ways of handling content. The Tin Can API fuses a decade of collective e-learning experiences with a decade of technological advances.
We’ve created a place for you to go and tell us what we got right and what we missed. Click on the video below to learn more about the Tin Can API.
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SCORM Stats: Then and Now
Categories: SCORM, SCORM 2004, SCORM Cloud, Standards Evolution, Uncategorized, Using the Standards
11 Aug 2011
Back in 2007, I got curious about SCORM 2004 adoption and pulled some metrics about how people were using SCORM. Well, I got curious again, but this time I took it to the next level. We’ve just published a feed of SCORM Stats that will be updated nightly. For SCORM geeks like us, these stats present a useful snapshot into how the real work is using SCORM. Go ahead and bookmark it and come back every now and then to see how things evolve.
Let’s take a look at SCORM then and now.
SCORM Versions
- SCORM Versions Then
- SCORM Versions Now
Then: SCORM 2004 made up about 50% of the content that was being uploaded into Test Track.
Now: SCORM 2004 makes up about 30-35% of the content uploaded into SCORM Cloud.
Conclusion: SCORM 2004 remains relevant for a significant population, but it’s adoption and usage has not increased over the years. Adoption appears to be flat. The decrease since 2007 is probably related to the more mainstream adoption of SCORM Cloud vs the early adopters using SCORM Test Track in 2007.
SCORM Versions By User
- SCORM Versions By User Then
- SCORM Versions By User Now
Then: About 40% of users were uploading SCORM 2004 content.
Now: About 40% of users are uploading SCORM 2004 content.
Conclusion: SCORM 2004 adoption remains flat.
Users
- SCORM Test Track Users Then
- SCORM Cloud Users Now
Then: About 3000 people cared enough about SCORM to try out our little application.
Now: 21,000 people have given SCORM Cloud a whirl.
Conclusion: Our little SCORM Test Track experiment was a hit. That’s nice for us, but for the broader SCORM community it show just how widespread SCORM’s adoption is. Twenty-one THOUSAND people are deep enough into SCORM to use an application like SCORM Cloud, with 500 more signing up every month. SCORM’s adoption is broader than I think anybody realizes. It is the industry workhorse.
Some other stats in that vein:
About 20,000 unique visitors visit scorm.com every month…that’s 20,000 more people every month who are interested in SCORM enough to go read about it.
About 12,000 courses are imported into SCORM Cloud every month. Twelve thousand courses, that is a lot of SCORM content being tested!
Realizing the -ilities (multiple SCOs)?
- Then: Use of Multi-SCO content
- Now: The use of multi-SCO content
- Now: Number of SCOs in Courses
Then: About 35% of SCORM 2004 content took advantage of multiple-SCO functionality.
Now: The percentage of content using more than one SCO has increased dramatically with each new edition of SCORM 2004.
Conclusion: The improvements in each SCORM 2004 Edition have been useful in making sequencing easier to use and more effective. Or, conversely, the people who use sequencing most heavily tend to gravitate to the latest edition with the most robust functionality.
Realizing the -ilities (use of sequencing)?
- Then: Use of Sequencing
- Now: Use of Sequencing
Conclusion: The use of sequencing remains similar, but it increases with the later SCORM 2004 Editions….consistent with the conclusions above.
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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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Why People Pay Us
Categories: Ideas and Thoughts, Rustici Software, SCORM, Standards Evolution
25 May 2011
Before we bought 30 inch monitors for everybody, we used to print out all of the SCORM specs as they came out. The hard copy made them a whole lot easier to digest even though it meant the slaughter of many innocent trees. In unpacking the last boxes in our new office today I came across all of them. It makes a nice visual for why it makes sense to work with Rustici Software if you’re serious about providing standards support.
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