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Comment on Moodle and SCORM Export? by dnorman

dnorman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:29:27 +0000

There’s the rub. You can limit yourself to painting by numbers, as supported by the archaic SCORM spec and possibilities of AICC etc… OR you can focus on supporting and engaging in meaningful learning activities. Which become tied to a specific platform because there is no way to import/export those complex and organic interactions in any meaningful way.

Comment on Moodle and SCORM Export? by Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:23:18 +0000

RE: “People need to base all of their courses on SCORM complaint content.”

So, the spec should drive the format/shape/process of learning?

I get it now. It makes perfect sense. And here I was thinking that the needs of learners should be primary.

Palm Forehead!

Thanks for the clarification.

Cheers,

Bill

Comment on Moodle and SCORM Export? by Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:13:38 +0000

Nice comment Mark, not self-serving AT ALL. Don’t blame the product vendors, the spec is too complicated, but DO trust the spec, and those specialists who can profit from developing in it.
Nice logic.

SCORM is an answer begged by the question of Learning Management Systems, themselves a beeged question of how to do online learning in a “protected” way. All over the web we see examples of people taking content, getting it to show up in other places, or reusing it easily, without arcane specs like SCORM. Yes, arcane.

Comment on kill the e. by Christian Long

Christian Long — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:03:51 +0000

Dig your e-post, fella. [wink]

And fully e-agree with you!

Comment on WordPress, draft/private pages, and the parent hierarchy structure by Phil

Phil — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:45:12 +0000

On a related point I’ve been searching for reasons the draft pages I have don’t show up in the parent hierachy. It’s obviously because they aren’t yet published. You’ve helped me there, so thanks for sharing.

Comment on Moodle and SCORM Export? by MarkK

MarkK — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:04 +0000

email info@bthegame.com for mark Kesley

Comment on Moodle and SCORM Export? by MarkK

MarkK — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:59:33 +0000

Stop blaming Moodle, blame yourselves. The best learning package to this date is SCORM 2004. The problem is that it is not easy to implement SCORM 2004 for most companies without experience in this area, so they rely on the Pre built templates (Quize, survey, etc) of their LMS instead of basing each project on SCORM compliant sub sections.

There is a solution
People need to base all of their courses on SCORM complaint content. That means you can’t rely on the Moodle template activities (or added modules) for course creation. You have to more rigorously manage each activity and asset for SCORM compliance and sequencing. To this point in time, Flash -> javascript applications lend themselves quite well to SCORM data transfers. The question is, can your company build an Actionscript project that implements SCORM? Can your company take existing content, modify it to export SCORM compliant variables. Ours can.

If you need expert consultation on risk reduction in software projects relating to SCORM compliancy, please email me.

Mark Kesley
Independant SCORM compliant/Flash/Javascript developer
(Email for samples)

Comment on kill the e. by Raj

Raj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:35:07 +0000

I agree it’s all just learning, and in a shameless plug for CeLC (I know the e is there as well), we will likely have a steam that is called “drop the e”.

Comment on kill the e. by Gary Lewis

Gary Lewis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:44:42 +0000

Hi D’Arcy – Right on! I couldn’t agree more. … Gary

Comment on kill the e. by Sami

Sami — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:31:27 +0000

+1 yeah it’s good we don’t call learning with a pencil pLearning or something all human learning these days requires some sort of technology it seems.