Posts tagged ‘opinion’
Flash support is increasingly a minefield
Posted Wednesday, March 13th, 2013.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash Player, opinion, web browsers, web design and development
Back in 2011, I mentioned that Microsoft was about to halt development of the Silverlight plugin, that Flash mobile was being discontinued, and that Adobe recommended HTML5 for enterprise RIA development instead of Flex, which was being open-sourced. My post was a little long-winded, but the short version was: whoa, the times-are-a-changin’, it’s getting dangerous to [...]
The State of Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Support
Posted Sunday, January 22nd, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, e-learning, opinion
I’ve heard rumors that the upcoming Captivate 6 will contain a completely revamped SCORM system that eliminates many of the issues I’ve covered. If this is the case, many of us will surely be elated, perhaps enough to pay for yet another upgrade. This could also help explain why Adobe hasn’t addressed the current SCORM publishing template; a complete overhaul of the existing SCORM system — including the ActionScript code inside the published SWFs — is a considerable amount of work.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 5: Finishing up
Posted Wednesday, January 18th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, JavaScript, opinion, SCORM
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In part two, we cleaned up the HTML file and externalized all JavaScript. In part three, we cleaned up the JavaScript. In part four, we updated the SCORM code. In this installment, we will put the finishing touches on our code and move our files into Captivate’s publishing folder.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 4: SCORM
Posted Saturday, January 14th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, SCORM, SCORM wrapper
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In part two, we cleaned up the HTML file and externalized all JavaScript. In part three, we cleaned up the JavaScript. In this installment, we will examine and update the SCORM code.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 3: JavaScript
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards, SWFObject
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In part two, we cleaned up the HTML file and externalized all JavaScript. Today we will clean up the JavaScript.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 2: HTML
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards, SWFObject
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In this part, we’ll take an in-depth look at the HTML generated by Captivate (using the SCORM 2004 publishing template) and clean it up as much as we can.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 1: Introduction
Posted Wednesday, January 11th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards
In this multi-part series, I will walk through the files Captivate outputs when publishing to SCORM 2004, pointing out the bad parts and suggesting alternatives when needed. At the end of the series, I will provide a fully-functional SCORM 2004 publishing template you can use with Captivate 5.5.
HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, and your courseware
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe Flash, e-learning, HTML 5, opinion, silverlight
What a busy week. Flash is dead. Sort of, but not really. In case you haven’t heard, Adobe formally announced the discontinuation of Flash Player for mobile devices (“Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5“). Adobe employees struggled to come to grips with what has undoubtedly [...]
Lion Server compared to Snow Leopard Server
Posted Friday, October 14th, 2011.
Filed under web design and development with the tags Apple, Apple Mac, Apple Mac Mini Server, Lion Server, opinion, Snow Leopard Server
Comparing my recent experience with Lion Server to my experience with Snow Leopard Server.
Is SCORM Dead?
Posted Thursday, March 10th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags ADL, e-learning, LETSI, opinion, Rant, SCORM
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 discussions about SCORM being dead.
The problem is, I never said “SCORM is dead.” I said “SCORM is dead to the ADL.” Big difference.
