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Eventually someone in the e-learning field is going to get slapped with a lawsuit just like Target did. If that’s what it takes to wake people up, I’m hoping it’s sooner rather than later!

SCO stands for shareable content object. If a course is not built to be shareable, it isn’t really a SCO, even if it uses SCORM for packaging. Spinning SCORM’s communication element off into its own standard — without the name SCORM — would free SCORM to truly be a Shareable Content Object Reference Model, and would free non-aggregators from having to deal with the complexities of SCORM.

If you’re trying to use SCORM in your e-learning, you’ve undoubtedly heard of JavaScript and ActionScript. But do you know the different between ECMAScript, JavaScript, and ActionScript?

Alex Russell has provided definitions for many of the ECMAScript-related names you might be reading about these days, including ECMAScript (3, 3.1, 4), ActionScript 3, Harmony, and JavaScript 2.

Very helpful!

Via Ajaxian.

A common thread in many of the posts I’ve been reading is that standards do not lead to innovation, but rather that innovation leads to standardization.

Thoughts and an addendum for my SCORM 2.0 white paper submission

An FYI for Adobe Captivate users: Adobe is about to release the Captivate 4 beta, and is looking for beta testers (no experience required).

My previous post discussed selecting technology for e-learning courseware.  Today CNET published an article discussing the various technologies vying for dominance in the rich internet application (RIA) market: Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?
It’s a good article for those not really familiar with the latest in the RIA world.
Since e-learning courseware [...]

This question came in via email. I figured I would post it (keeping the author anonymous) because these are very common questions, and maybe this post can help other people out. I also want to give others the opportunity to throw in their 2 cents!