Interview with Walt Mansell (CEO) at Watershed Networks
Categories: Project Tin Can Details
19 Apr 2011
Key Points:
- Our content is constantly updating, so we need to keep control of it on our servers. This doesn’t work well with SCORM.
- We provide the ability to personalize the content, mix and match assets as desired, quickly.
- For customers who do want SCORM tracking, we develop a way to send that data for each customer.
- Everyone always uses the latest version of the content.
- Recording informal learning — message boards, instant messages, is important for preserving knowledge.
- Looking into mobile, at least tablets.
- Providing “just in time” searchable access information, doesn’t have to be taken all at once as large courses.
- New API should make use of open source.
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Key Points:
- Current LMSs focus too much on Management, not enough on Learning
- Need to customize the learning experience not just by learning need but also by learner type
- LMSs should be able to design, offer and track informal learning such as job shadowing or mentoring
- There is a great need to make user generated learning / content available through a standard LMS.
- LMSs should evolve into Personal Learning Environment (PLEs) or enable them
- Learning Management Systems should evolve into Learning Network Management Systems
- There is too much focus on measurement – is there a need to measure every click, every page view, every second spent within the course
- Learning is evolving from being more personal and less organization driven
- As organizations pass on the learning responsibilities to the learner, the need to track and report may reduce.
- Newer concepts such as MOOCs should be available through the LMS
- Integration of mobile devices and tablets is a clear need – apps for mobile platforms, Kindle, tablet versions etc
- LMSs should help individuals find more information within their
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Key Points:
- Numerous requests to convert content and run it on mobile devices, tablets.
- Interoperability poses a problem – content works in a test suite, but not on LMS
- Created and tracked accident scenarios through Second Life
- Communication failures even after the certificate is granted, where the learner has a certificate but is not marked complete in the LMS. Enabling offline scenarios could help here too.
- Location, time zone, and language are key aspects to launch a course. Content can change based on the context.
- Mobile content should be concise in terms of duration and file size as users will not wait.
- There should be a way to embed or reference a forum from content, and restrict access to students taking the course.
- A standard API for generating reports would definitely be beneficial.
- Learning will follow the web with increasing bandwidth resulting in more video, 3D simulations, virtual worlds.
- SCORM should be able to track synchronous learning such as Webinars, but then it should also be captured for playback later as a SCORM package.
- Focus on assessments is important.
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Key Points:
- LMSs don’t always implement standard fully, content may not be tested, tools should explicitly describe the profile of the standard which they fully implement, and be conformance tested.
- Common Cartridge approach makes sense, core required profile, but optional features as well. Extension points are also important, and should have been included in CC
- Tools supporting the use of standards should be a key concern for standards organizations
- Publishers want to render their content their way, not have it rendered by someone else.
- Enough information should be available to enable content-driven sequencing.
- In blended learning, teachers want to disaggregate content, control its sequencing and only use parts of it.
- LMS becomes less important as a front-end, becomes a service provider.
- Need integration with FaceBook, Google, other LMSs, etc. to support life-long learning.
- Tracking isn’t as relevant (in EU), or even allowed due to data protection rules. Certification will be on the basis of a test, not tracking.
- Scalable complexity
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Interview with José Ramón Mostiero (CEO), and Fernando Diaz at Netex
Categories: Project Tin Can Details
13 Apr 2011
Key Points:
- Cross domain tracking needs to be made easier.
- Teachers want to be able to provide individual questions for individual students, change the scoring system on the fly.
- Teachers want to track specific skills more so than trainers would in a company.
- Teachers want to be able to re-arrange content on the fly.
- A standard for export tracking from one LMS to another would be useful.
- Should be able to track from two activities to one training record, eg: mobile and desktop versions.
- Need to detect role when launching content (teacher or student). And for students, their level.
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