e-learning
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)
Industry News
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
e-learning
I’ve had a number of people ask me about extending my SCORM helpers (the JavaScript-based SCORM API wrapper and the two ActionScript classes) in order to completely remove the need to know any of the “cmi” calls. For instance, being able to do something like this: scorm.bookmark = "
ActionScript
There is a newer list of variables available, which includes new Captivate 4 variables. A recent post (link no longer available) in the elearning development forum (link no longer available) reminded me that I forgot to post some unpublished Captivate variables I dug up a while back. These were gathered
e-learning
The SCORM API wrapper (v1.1.7) has been updated to automatically set the initial course status and the exit status. The point of my SCORM API wrapper is to make working with SCORM easier. These two new functions are intended to ensure you follow best practices with your SCORM
e-learning
Ok, I just had to write a quick blurb about this one: in about 3.5 years of using SCORM in my own course code, I had never used cmi.core.exit (SCORM 1.2) or cmi.exit (SCORM 2004). Seems incredibly daft of me now that I’ve taken
Tutorials
In my previous post, I briefly explained how to add SCORM code to an existing Flash file by using the pipwerks SCORM wrapper and SCORM ActionScript class. Today, I’m going to explain how to add SCORM code to a plain HTML file. This example uses SCORM 1.2 syntax,
SCORM actionscript class
Update 10/2011: The Planets example has been updated (almost completely rewritten) and no longer strictly adheres to the steps and screenshots in this tutorial. The general concepts are the same, but the project files have been substantially refined. To prevent confusion about which files to use, I have removed
Project Updates
Here’s a bunch of news updates regarding the pipwerks SCORM JavaScript wrapper. Time for class? A big fad these days is object-oriented JavaScript; libraries such as jQuery and MooTools make it really easy to create JavaScript “classes” (in quotes because from what I can gather, they’re really JavaScript
Adobe Captivate
Many of us use a Flash-based course interface (a.k.a. ‘player’) to load Captivate SWFs and other content. A well-known stumbling block for this kind of ‘loaded SWF’ approach has been Captivate’s lack of ActionScript support — Captivate won’t allow a user to add a simple line of
ActionScript
A few months ago I wrote about the dilemma of trying to load Captivate SWFs into an ActionScript 3-based parent SWF. Dilemma solved! I present to you the ActionScript 3 class LegacyCaptivateLoader. This class utilizes ExternalInterface and a proxy SWF to facilitate sending commands to and querying data from an
CSS
Clive Shepherd recently wrote about “inductive learning.” He said: In my post last week, Whatever happened to inductive learning?, I complained how difficult it was with current rapid development tools to write more conversational inductive questions in which you as author are able to comment on each selection that the