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SCORM Vs. xAPI (Tin Can): eLearning Content Standards

Academy of Mine

Why eLearning Content Standards Matter Content standards ensure that eLearning courses are designed to pass data and information along to technology like Learning Management Systems (LMS). You can look at a lot of big LMS providers, and you will see that they don’t support xAPI since the demand isn’t high. What Is xAPI?

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

For many, their first experience with eLearning was educational computer games delivered via CD Rom. Thankfully, eLearning comes in many different forms from basic PowerPoint modules to learning games and simulations and beyond, giving users many options to support their unique learning objectives.

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What's Better: eLearning or Classroom?

The Performance Improvement Blog

Feeding this appetite for online programs is research that seems to support the notion that online is better than face-to-face, classroom instruction. However, the change has been in the accessibility of information, not in the impact of instruction.). Putting a course on the Web or on a CD-ROM does not ensure performance improvement.(

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SCORM Vs. xAPI (Tin Can): eLearning Content Standards

Academy of Mine

Content standards ensure that eLearning courses are designed to pass data and information along to technology like Learning Management Systems (LMS). However, unless you’re still training using CD-ROMs, this is content standard is now irrelevant. As a reference, Academy Of Mine LMS supports SCORM 1.2 SCORM Vs. xAPI.

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Instructional Design for Mobile Learning #id4mlearning

Learning Visions

So often people treat ID as just organizing information on a page. We can use devices in the classroom to mobilize us – get kids out from behind their desks and moving around, gathering information. Nowadays, there’s just way too much information. raise your hand while interacting with a CD ROM).

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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

CD ROMs became easy to author, but they were soon supplanted by the ubiquity of the internet. Learning management systems made tracking learner performance easier, and now mobile platforms have made accessing learning opportunities almost effortless for the user. Anticipating student reactions and questions. Giving feedback.

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Training Design

Tony Karrer

Ten years later, life was good because we had another delivery model available, the CD-ROM allowing us to train individuals. Yes, we theoretically had this back in 1987 with paper-based materials, but we looked at the CD as a substitute for classroom instruction. When you support informal / self-directed / workgroup learning?

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