Posts tagged ‘standards’
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.
Using the object element to dynamically embed Flash SWFs in Internet Explorer
Posted Monday, May 30th, 2011.
Filed under General, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, standards, SWFObject, web design and development
This is a journey into the madness of Internet Explorer. Yes, there is a happy ending.
SOAP for SCORM
Posted Wednesday, November 17th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags accessibility, ADL, devlearn, e-learning, learning management systems, LETSI, RTWS, SCORM, standards
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 session, covering the basic “what” and “why” ideas while Ben covered the technical details (“how”) in the second half.
Dear Apple and Adobe
Posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010.
Filed under General with the tags Adobe, Adobe Flash, Apple, best practices, opinion, standards, technology
Neither of you are choir boys, and I’m fed up with your bickering.
Speaking of IMS…
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, fail, impenetrable fortress, IMS, opinion, privacy, Rant, standards
The IMS wants your personal information before they’ll let you read their public standards.
IMS issues press release for new e-learning interoperability standards
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, grandstanding, IMS, opinion, Rant, standards
If the new standards are written as poorly as this press release, it’s going to be 1,000 pages of useless spec.
Best Practices in E-Learning
Posted Wednesday, October 21st, 2009.
Filed under e-learning, General with the tags best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, SCORM, standards
Someone recently posted a blog entry ranting about the use of the term “best practices” in our industry. I understand the frustration with thoughtless pronouncements about best practices, especially coming from people who may not know any better; it will often sound a lot like how like mom used to say “eat this, it’s good for you” without really knowing whether it’s true. However, there is a big difference between best practices in terms of learning theory — something that’s difficult to quantify and/or prove — and technology.
SCORM security (two kinds of SCORM people)
Posted Thursday, April 2nd, 2009.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags ADL, best practices, cheating, e-learning, JavaScript, learning management systems, LETSI, opinion, SCORM, SCORM 2.0, standards
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 to hear from everyone, especially regarding such an engaging topic.
But as I hear more from these seasoned SCORM pros, I’ve made (what I believe to be) an interesting observation: there is a sharp division between die-hard SCORM developers and casual users. I suppose I’ve felt this way for a long time, but it’s really coming into focus this week. Let me try to define the camps.
