Tim and I have been discussing how our own experience in designing the SCORM Engine might directly apply to the "platform for e-learning" being discussed by LETSI. Behind the scenes, the SCORM Engine is essentially a platform that facilitates adding plug-in functionality to LMS's. In…
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In general, passion and anger don't mix with software standards for me. I believe we're doing good work, I think SCORM is really effective, and I hope we're doing our part to further its ongoing success. But... we often find ourselves mired in discussions over…
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There has been a lot of talk in LETSI lately about what SCORM 2.0 should look like. Everything is on the table. Since there are so many use cases for e-learning, it has been difficult to narrow down the focus of what a specification for…
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This question comes up several times a month. From time to time, when you launch a piece of content, you may see a message box like this: In order for communication to occur between the LMS and content, the LMS is obligated to provide an…
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A recent entry on "Rod's Pulse Podcast" contained an audio interview with Dr. Bobbe Baggio, In the interview, Dr. Baggio asserts that "SCORM is dead". She also says that "people who work with SCORM understand what I mean". Dr. Baggio, I work with SCORM, I…
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I got a great question from one of our SCORM Engine clients (Brian) first thing this morning, so straight to the blog it goes. We are getting very involved with developing a custom SCORM report that utilizes and displays interaction data. As we are looking…
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Philip over at Pipworks posted some interesting questions related to Adobe's products specifically and what they should do with SCORM interaction data. I think the responses to this question are interesting in their own right (share them publicly, folks, not just with Adobe!)My question goes…
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This video, found via twitter posts from @moodler and previously @ralfh is fun to watch. Created in 1967 and complete with content, assessment, and remediation, it certainly shows us that the ideas we're playing with now aren't new ones. At a minimum, I hope we've…
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Moodle is the leading open source LMS (based on no real research on my part whatsoever, mostly, I've just heard the name more than Sakai or some other alternatives). They've done a great job creating a product that is broadly used and reasonably well thought…
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When content sends data to an LMS via AICC, it uses a Microsoft INI data format. For instance, the data might look something like this:[CORE]LESSON_STATUS=PassedLESSON_LOCATION=page1SCORE=95TIME=00:20:54[CORE_LESSON]A bunch of data to be saved for laterThe "bunch of data" stored in the core lesson field is free text…
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