I am excited to be involved in the LETSI project creating "Web Services for Learning Run-Time Communication". In my mind, it's the most useful work going on in the e-learning standards world these days (but I'm sure others will disagree). It's fun, we have a…
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Last night we released an implementation of SCORM 2004 4th Edition to the public TestTrack server. For all of you chomping at the bit to take advantage of the new features in 4th Edition, now's your chance to give it a whirl. Ok, so maybe…
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Tom King recently tweeted a great blog post on ZDNet by Jeremy Allison that teaches some great lessons about standards and the creation of true interoperability. The ZDNet post is a reaction to a post by Rob Weir that explains how Microsoft created an implementation…
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Just following up on yesterday's post regarding SCORM 2004 4th Edition testing. According to this tweet, it looks as if ADL may be holding off until August for this testing. We will likely follow suit so as to be sure to release a certifiable product…
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Look out everyone. This post is going to be thrilling! We're talking website semantics, rss feeds, and where you can find information! Digg this post, bookmark it, tweet away, because this is hot, hot stuff. More or less, I want you to be able to…
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The SCORM community is abuzz these days with talk about the security (or lack thereof) in SCORM. As an "alpha-scormmie", I'd like to share some of my perspectives on the issue and try to put things in context. The crux of the issue is that…
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From my recent post on the LETSI blog:They say that sometimes the best way to learn how to swim is just to dive into the water and see what happens (please don’t actually try this at home). Often, you can analyze a problem and get…
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ADL recently released beta versions of the SCORM 2004 4th Edition Conformance Test Suite and Sample Run Time Environment. 4th Edition adds 4 new features and 30-something clarifications/enhancements/bug fixes to SCORM 2004. This evolution is not a drastic change to the specification, but should represent…
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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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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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