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Clean out the root of your SCORM 2004 package

Anyone who works with SCORM 2004 has seen something like this: With just a little effort, you can make it look like this, and still be perfectly valid: SCORM manifests are required to specify a slew of schema files via the schemaLocation attribute. Here’s what you’d typically see:

Is SCORM Dead?

About a week ago I tweeted: from what i’m reading between the lines, #SCORM is dead to the ADL. they’re moving on. interesting timing considering #TAACCCT I had no idea how much hand-wringing and consternation my off-handed comment would cause. It apparently caused (directly or indirectly) some heated

SOAP for SCORM

At DevLearn 2010, Ben Clark and I presented a session named SOAP for SCORM on behalf of LETSI. The topic was the LETSI Run-Time Web Service (RTWS), a proposed modification of SCORM to use SOAP for communication rather than the current JavaScript model. I presented the first half of the

And the ADL wonders why people find SCORM difficult...

I’ll let the URLs do the talking: URL for the ADL’s “SCORM Documents” page: http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} URL for the ADL’s SCORM 1.2 page: http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%

SCORM security (two kinds of SCORM people)

I’ve had a flurry of emails and messages regarding my SCORM cheat the past few days, and have received feedback from a number of well-regarded SCORM aficionados, some of whom contributed to the standard and helped make SCORM what it is today. This is wonderful, I’m very happy

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