... you think the SCORM E-Learning Reference Model will evolve into during the next 10 years? SCORM is literally 10 years old ... the technology going is being adopted by a major player in non-traditional learning for grade and high school students ... ;I'm not sure SCORM is still relevant. A lot of people are putting eLearning out there without really using SCORM (that is, their content is SCORM compatible, but doesn't really make use of the features); while I am a huge advocate of ... content have developed so rapidly that SCORM compliance is much less of an issue" "In my work, SCORM ...

... learning marketplace is several years behind the 2.0 Web and how efforts like ADL /SCORM/ LETSI need to jump ahead in ... addressing those unique aspects of the commercial learning/training space. I do think that LETSI is trying to head down this road with their SCORM 2.0 Call for Papers and the upcoming SCORM 2.0 Workshop. I am particularly heartened by this passage that describes some the Challenges and Objectives facing SCORM 2.0: "Support existing and emerging ... , learning management, content management, knowledge management, HR systems, mobile delivery, Web 2.0, ...

So I spent most of last week at the LETSI / SCORM 2.0 Workshop in Pensacola, FL. I used CoverItLive to do a ... I did want to be sure and point out that the workshop developed and is currently refining about 30 use cases for SCORM 2.0 . This is in addition to the 100+ white papers that have been written and submitted to LETSI on SCORM 2.0 topics. All that tells me is that there is considerable intellectual firepower being directed at this issue of what SCORM ... -learning industry - or whatever you want to call it - over the past ten years, hasn't exactly been keeping pace ...

I recently posted about the SCORM 2.0 Call for Papers and how I feel this is a very important moment for SCORM ... revolution ) of learning and training infrastructure. Much of the current e-learning and LMS infrastructure is grounded in the learning and training approaches of the 1990s ('80s? '70s??) . By comparison, today's technical and learning environment is much more ???read-write???, collaborative, social and nomadic-- all while being more personal and ... I???ve ever met anyone, outside the DOD / ADL who doesn???t think SCORM and AICC are over engineered pieces of ...

I just read an article in Military Training Technology about how the Joint Advanced Distributed Learning (JADL) Co-Laboratory is working on a project to "research methods for enabling interoperability, accessibility, and reusability of SCORM compliant learning content in 3-D virtual worlds". Although this article was published in the October issue, I went to the JADL website and found that the project kicked off in May 2007. Regardless, this effort promises to advance the integration of SCORM and MMOGs by researching training opportunities, the characteristics of learning content ...

One good question to asked by one of my developers during our weekly meeting. Should we support SCORM for a new e-learning 2.0 platform? For me, SCORM and e-learning 2.0 totally different world. SCORM , centralized ... incorporate features of SCORM in e-Learning 2.0 for the reasons below: - SCORM does not support learning through ... . Collaborative effort in making contents for SCORM just so that, can be applied in e-Learning 2.0 seems pointless. So far, there’s still no clear indication of SCORM integrating into e-Learning 2.0. What do you think? No ...

6C Learning Blog: The new RELOAD has arrived I am going to try this new open source software. Thanx Bert!

... group and/or effort that ADL/SCORM/CORDRA should be drawing on and working with to accomplish its goals? What would be the impact on the e-learning marketplace if we saw the development of such a set of standards?

... speaker for the one I wanted to go to didn’t show, so I went to “Is SCORM worth it?” No one came up with a conclusive answer, but the discussion was lively and engaging. In general people seem frustrated by SCORM’s limitations and problems, but understand the need for a cross-vendor standard. My opinion is that SCORM has a place, but not ... “Things I have learned in my life so far”. The talk had nothing to do with eLearning, but was the best ... companion web site at http://www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/ where you can contribute lessons you’ve learned ...

... well. The Learning Object proponents have been trying this for years and I haven't really seen it work effectively. I'm guessing each wiki page is like a learning object that is tagged. If you select a tag then you get all of the content organized around that tag, and then you can export it in a SCORM compliant wrapper to report out to the LMS. ??? I don't know. It smells a lot like trying to put the round peg in the old square hole. Is informal/collaborative learning ...

I often find myself daydreaming when dealing with LMS problems. I say to myself, "If I built an LMS, it would…….." Ah, if only it were that easy. This line of thinking leads me to these questions: How would you design your perfect LMS? What features would you include (or exclude)? How would it differ from current LMS products on the market? I’ll start this off, but I really would love to hear your thoughts. Who knows, maybe (if we’re lucky) some LMS vendors are listening! My perfect LMS would… Support the AICC, SCORM 1.2, and SCORM ...

... me started: Is it mandatory to use SCORM while developing an E-learning Software? SCORM is as close as you get to Mandatory in the world of eLearning. You want to implement your courseware to the SCORM standard if you plan to have it ... including kinds of SCORM learning objects, online or offline learning objects, and organizing and sequencing learning objects; organizing learning objects and SCOs; implementing SCORM-compliant learning objects and SCOs; and packaging SCORM ... Now that I posted about Better Questions for Learning Professionals , I've been receiving questions via email from ...

I was just asked by someone about how they could test a course they were creating against a particular Learning Management System (LMS) (in this case Docent 6.5). This is something we run into fairly often. We are developing a SCORM or ... about it. Here are some ideas - SCORM Test Suite One of the best things about SCORM (ADL's Sharable Content ... no guarantee that two SCORM implementations that pass the self-test suite will integrate okay. The test suite can be ... with the SCORM test suite. We'll have to figure out what this LMS does different than the SCORM test suite." SCORM ...

... and features to come.   One thing I’d really like to see is a Gears implementation of SCORM for offline learning ... eLearning courseware is the low hanging fruit. What about mobile learning, or learning on-demand? You can cache templates for learning objects so only the content needs to download. A lot of content these days is XML that is rendered by a ... have a huge impact on eLearning. You can get Gears and learn more at http://gears.google.com , or read the FAQ.

SCORM and AICC are the two most common methods used to allow eLearning courses to communicate with learning ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Test SCORM Courses with an LMS : eLearning ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Major CMS Vendor Adds LMS/SCORM Capabilities : eLearning Technology ... : Vignette Provides Online, On-Demand Training For Customers . Theyve added tracking and SCORM to their CMS ...

I'm in the middle of designing and developing a new blended learning course on the whole subject of embedded learning ... new fangled rapid e-learning tools that everyone's talking about (I know, I'm a little slow on the uptake!). Well anyway ... upload all these materials into Moodle without any problems and the SCORM tracking works on the quizzes. Although I may not recommend this particular tool to develop long pieces of self-study learning, I don't believe there are many circumstances in which I would recommend anyone to do that anymore anyway. So call me a rapid e-learning convert.

... found via TechCrunch ) On one level, SonicSwap is a service that makes use of YouTube's API to allow users to upload their iTunes playlists and play songs and videos via YouTube's API. But now all that good brain fertilizer from the SCORM 2.0 workshop has me thinking....so we build this platform...YouTube for learning...and then we publish the API and people can use the platform and can assign rights using the platform...and others can pull objects thru the API ... this and like Udutu's work  in our maket space.... so what gets your vote for most innovative learning tool?

... builder, a selection of learning games and Flash import, and exports to SCORM 1.2 (although I couldn't get my test ... I don't know where this appeared from or why but it seems that Microsoft has a rapid e-learning development tool. It's available for free download and there don't seem to be any strings attached. I'm not completely convinced because there's very little information about this product and it certainly isn't being marketed heavily. My best guess is that this is a tool used by Microsoft itself or by one of its contracted developers, and someone suggested making it more ...

Over the past two months I've been working extensively with the open source virtual learning environment (VLE) Moodle . I've been using it in three ways: To provide support for a predominantly classroom-based course (pre and post course activities, forums, wiki, etc.). To support a predominantly online course in the usual way. To build an online ... Moodle extremely easy to learn (in spite of pretty awful online help) and I have been able to create what I want in ... following: Forums Real-time chat Delivery and tracking of SCORM-compliant materials RSS news feeds Wikis ...

... quot;scheduled "courses" that run for 6 weeks and cover university-level topics. Learning takes place in ... for more detail on what it is like to learn in a P2PU course. Most materials are stored on other servers and linked to ... duplicated. This way, one structured set of materials can spawn many learning communities." Now I'm thinking a couple of things...first...having just come from the SCORM 2.0 workshop, this kind of model really tears at existing learning industry biz models doesn't it? Second, I like the small groups, the ability to copy and distribute the ...

... groups: Learning Management Systems / AICC / SCORM Tools and technologies Useful blogs, eBooks, and books (e)Learning 2.0 I believe I only have an hour, so I will be covering these from a very high-level; however, I will be ... people who are new to the learning and technology (eLearning) field. I will provide resources, tips, tricks ... give to people starting out in the field of learning and technology? I’ll start out with these… Never trust a vendor that says they are 100% SCORM compliant. Always test courses thoroughly in your LMS before agreeing ...

SCORM in 5 minutes or less, with pictures! Brief intro to SCORM, explaining how the LMS and learning object talk to each other tags: scorm , e-learning Free SCORM Technical Resources - Ostyn Consulting Technical information, tools, and white papers for SCORM. Less technical information is available on another page. tags: scorm , e-learning , ...

I was presented with an interesting task recently: I was asked to recommend a learning management system (LMS) that can support 6 different languages (English, French, French-Canadian, Italian, German, and Spanish). This is new ... you, eLearning Guild ) and web surfing to learn about multi-lingual LMSs. I read data sheets and sales-speak until my ... 360-Degree Report on Learning Management Systems . So, here’s where I’m a newbie: When purchasing off-the-shelf content, do vendors typically provide you with separate SCORM/AICC files for each language? How do you manage ...

... the various images. These can then be deployed as a simple web offering or as a SCORM object, although in many ...

... specifically and e-Learning field in general. In a way, I guess that should be encouraging since it provides a degree of job ... domain (think SCORM, HLA, etc.) there is a long way to go. It's true that many companies thrive off of the disjointed nature ... book titled " Simulations and the Future of Learning " from my bookshelf in order to see how close we were getting to the "future". His first chapter (called "Do you want fries with that e-Learning") has always been my favorite. In it he discusses what the world would be like if e-Learning truly worked. Some of the epiphanies include: Training ...

I’m in an interesting position right now: I get to work on designing our organization’s mobile learning ... what I’ve recently learned: If you’re thinking about implementing mLearning, make sure you’re doing ... seek out blogs , articles , etc. Share the info with peers (ahem). To SCORM or not to SCORM, that is the question ... need to research something like Pocket SCORM or OnPoint’s CellCast Solution . Fair warning, though, this definitely adds complexity to your project. You may even want to consider the SCORM tracking to be the second phase of ...

... interactive eLearning content. The learning object interface feels a little awkward, but that is easily overlooked for ... to know any scripting to create interactive learning content (including quiz questions and drag-and-drop features).  If you are comfortable with ActionScript, you can extend its functionality with code. Here’s a brief learning object demo from the Xerte (University of Nottingham) website. Xerte - Learning Object Demo Xerte supports popular media formats such as .jpg, .gif, .png, .swf, .flv, and .mp3.  Xerte is also SCORM compliant.  Similar to ...

... looking at SCORM / SCOs. But it got me to thinking that I've really not looked at Learning Objects in quite a while - and ... A reader from another country has asked me about Learning Object Tools. I asked him to clarify what they meant and the response was: Learning Object Tools are those that allow you to create, edit and manage learning objects. There is also a bit of language barrier. I pointed them at the Wikipedia article - Learning Object . It cites quite a few repositories and briefly mentions " Burrokeet is an Open Source Software tool that assists in the creation of Learning ...

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