A car salesman’s credibility is quickly lost when he guesses what size engine is under the hood or what the gas mileage could be. Claiming a car has “good” gas mileage is not the same thing as knowing it’s 40 mpg. A 6-cylinder engine can come in a variety of flavors… in-line or V, turbocharged or naturally-aspirated, these details create some machines that are much faster than others. With cars, more is not always better, sweating the details creates vehicles that keep “car guys” debating for hours. People who care nothing for cars will make generalizations that make me cringe, but nobody wants a guessing salesman to help choose the perfect vehicle.
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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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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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Let your customers know that you’re using the best
Categories: Clients, Products, Rustici Software, SCORM, SCORM Cloud, SCORM Driver, SCORM Engine
23 May 2011
You pay for Rustici Software products, and we want to make sure that you’re getting the most out of them.
Some of our customers prefer to tuck their use of our products away, and we’re fine with that. But others want to scream from the mountaintop that they’re using the best SCORM conformance software available. If you’re a screamer, then we want you to let the world know that you’re using our stuff. We’ve waded through all the legalese and created a way for you to do just that.
“Powered by” images are now available for you to put to work. Just visit our “powered by” page and grab the HTML or files for print that you need.
We’ve provided 3 sizes for each image, but we understand that there will be exceptions. If you need a different size or format, just email support@scorm.com with your needs and we’ll get a custom image made for you — pronto.
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