The World Just Changed: Tin Can API v1.0 is Here

The World Just Changed

The floodgates are open. It’s time to celebrate. The Tin Can API, version 1.0, is here today. It was almost three years ago when ADL asked the e-learning community to help them with research to create a new, simpler, more powerful e-learning standard. E-learning standards…

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Interview with Al Bejcek, Rob Lowe at NetDimensions

Key Points: Biggest issue is still interoperability, though we haven't encountered many problems. Mobile learning is increasingly in demand. Offline use, and the JavaScript API are the main (API) problems to be solved. Currently have a portable LMS, runs off a flash drive. Our portable…

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Interview with folks at Element K

Key Points: Customer wants to allow learners to share and comment on notes: within a topic, or across courses. There is increasing demand for mobile delivery. We have extremely large libraries of content. Clients desire a simpler way to find, manage, and deploy content from…

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Interview with Nick Stephenson, founder of Ecampus

Key Points 90% of content loaded into our system is SCORM 1.2 -- because it's perceived as simple by our clients. Demand for SCORM 2004 support seems to be mainly as a "check-box", something you're supposed to have. Mining industry: simulating big trucks. Have objectives…

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Interview with Walt Mansell (CEO) at Watershed Networks

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…

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Project Tin Can Define the Next Generation of SCORM

The Big Announcement Well, here it is, the big announcement we hinted at with the obscure name "Project Tin Can". Rustici Software as been hired by ADL to help produce the successor to SCORM. For the next year, we will be conducting outreach, gathering requirements,…

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