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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

At the dawn of the video recording age, a battle raged about the best standard to use: VHS or Betamax. In it, Sony came out with a better standard, but kept it to themselves. Meanwhile, JVC’s VHS standard wasn’t quite as good, but they openly licensed it. Standards provide several benefits. Learning Standards.

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What happened in 2023 and what’s next for eLearning standards

Rustici Software

We thought that there were only so many human beings who wake up early on a Tuesday morning excited to hear a talk about eLearning interoperability standards. We were shocked to see how many people joined Chris Tompkins and Brian Miller on “Our IEEE LTSC voting members recap 2023 and what’s next for the standards” webinar last week.

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Adapting to change: Going hybrid and supporting standards

Rustici Software

The same holds true for the standards that we support and the ever changing needs of our customers. When I first joined Rustici in 2011, SCORM was the de facto standard for our customers. xAPI was a glimmer in the eye of ADL, Rustici and in particular Ben Clark, who was spearheading Project Tin Can development.

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What we’re looking forward to at I/ITSEC – including our cmi5 tutorial!

Rustici Software

Practical Guide to Learning Engineering (Best tutorial track). 28 | 2:30-4PM EST. Focusing on introducing what learning engineering is, this tutorial walks through how using science, engineering and data to make informed decisions helps to support learners and their development. Watch the “Whose Standard is it Anyway?”

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ADL xAPI Conformance Test Launches, SCORM Cloud and SCORM Engine are Conformant LRSs

Experience API

Recently, ADL (the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative) launched the xAPI Adopter Registry , which lists xAPI Adopters and Conformant LRSs. Personally, we have been involved in the learning standards community since 2002 and in that time have come to understand the true value eLearning specifications provide in ensuring interoperability.

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The next chapter in Rustici Engine’s LRS xAPI performance

Rustici Software

Rustici Engine has supported xAPI (the Experience API) since 2011 when we created the initial version for ADL. The last big overhaul we made to xAPI data storage in Engine was in 2015. The Problem The xAPI standard requires us to support a variety of ways to fetch statements. It was time.

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SCORM Engine 2017.1 is released!

Rustici Software

We are excited to announce that the latest version of SCORM Engine–SCORM Engine 2017.1–is New Features in SCORM Engine 2017.1. Engine now provides built-in support for the Amazon AWS environment, which allows you to securely store your courses in Amazon’s S3 data store. Engine is xAPI conformant.