Development standards for e-learning… a starting point
My attempt at outlining standards and best practices throughout the e-learning development cycle.
Why don’t more e-learning developers use standards?
Proposing a community-defined set of simplified e-learning development standards that can be viewed more as ‘rules of thumb’ than law.
Rapid Intake: Where are the standards?
Today Rapid Intake announced a new service named Unison. Out of curiosity, I perused the Rapid Intake site to read more about Unison. […] I certainly don’t mean to beat up on whoever designed their site, but as a company whose business is publishing web-based documents, this website gives me zero confidence in the quality of their product.
The IMS Global Learning Consortium needs to loosen up!
I looked up the QTI specs on the IMS site and couldn’t believe the boldfaced notice I saw on the page: “HTML documents may be viewed online, but may not be printed without permission” (emphasis added).
Can you believe that? IMS is in the business of creating standards they want the whole world to use. These standards should be open, easily accessible and free from licensing constraints. Why on earth do they want to put silly notices like this on their site?
SCORM API Wrapper updated to 1.1.2
Two small but important edits.
New: SCORM API wrapper for ActionScript 3.0
I just converted my AS2 SCORM class to AS3.
HTML 5: The strong element
In the new HTML 5 proposal, the strong element is being modified to represent “importance rather than strong emphasis.”
New: SCORM API wrapper for ActionScript 2.0
I just finished an ActionScript 2.0 class file meant to be a companion to my JavaScript SCORM API wrapper. It includes a bunch of type checking, type conversion, and error-checking, and works with both SCORM 1.2 and 2004.
SCORM API Wrapper updated to 1.1.1
Found a small bug when using the wrapper with Flash (AS2): functions that return string values (such as SCORM.data.get()) were coming out ‘undefined’. (grr)
Explicitly typing the return value as a string seems to make Flash happy.
SCORM API Wrapper updated to v1.1
Some small edits to the wrapper: Fixed a few typos in debug statements Added extra error-checking during SCORM.connection.initialize; if connection cannot be made AND no error code is given, display notice that server has not responded. Related links: Original SCORM API Wrapper journal entry pipwerks.com SCORM page