Question: Why don’t more e-learning developers use standards? I don’t know for sure, but I have a number of guesses. Here’s a quick list off the top of my head: * Lack of knowledge about standards * Confusing or obtuse documentation * Competing standards * Misconceptions about cost effectiveness * Difficulty / Lack
Today Rapid Intake announced a new service named Unison. Not having used the service, I won’t pretend to know whether it’s a worthwhile service or not. It’s certainly an intriguing idea, and with its oft-mentioned low price, it’s guaranteed to get some industry buzz. Out of
Today I’m working on a simple JavaScript/XML-based quiz. I decided I’d like to use a standardized XML format for the quiz questions and answers, so I googled QTI, a common quiz format. Turns out QTI is (yet another) IMS specification (duh, I should have known that!). I
Small but important edits: * Added snippet of code to double-check API connection is active before returning a ‘true’ boolean value. * Fixed a typo for evaluating whether an error code has been returned from the LMS Also added some code from the Firebug folks that allows Firebug’s “console” functions to
I just converted my AS2 SCORM class to AS3. Read documentation and download file(s) here. Note this class requires the pipwerks SCORM API wrapper for JavaScript. Not being much of an AS3 guy (so far!), it was easier than I expected; I guess since I had already used strong