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IMS announces new QTI validation service

The IMS Global Learning Consortium announced a new Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) validation service a few weeks ago: IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Question and Test Interoperability Conformance Community Common Cartridge Alliance will provide community tools for QTI conformance and online product catalog Download pdf (link no longer available)

What do you want *your* SCORM to do?

Most e-learning developers don’t care about SCORM and only (begrudingly) learn enough to get the job done. I don’t blame them. The other day I was reading some old Drupal community posts (circa 2005) about adding SCORM functionality to Drupal. One comment stood out: SCORM was the big

Just the Macs, ma'am

The transition is almost complete: I have ditched my Windows-based PC for a MacBook Pro. My reasons?  Well, I could write a whole bunch of fluff about how as a developer I need to be able to test my work on multiple operating systems, and a Mac (with BootCamp and/

Link: Opening Up the IMS

Good post from Michael Feldstein at e-Literate: There’s something fundamentally contradictory about open standards being developed behind closed doors. … Over the past 18 months, I have had the privilege of participating in the IMS work on a regular basis. During that time, I have mostly kept my mouth shut

Link: Web Accessibility Checklist

The talented Cameron Moll has posted a link to a Web Accessibility Checklist prepared by Aaron Cannon, a (blind) member of his web development team. Aaron’s checklist is an easy-to-understand list of accessibility _do_s and _don’t_s. Most of these are so simple and easy to implement

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