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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). At Academy Of Mine, our clients have told us time and time again that SCORM courses in the LMS give them plenty of information on their learners.

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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. SCORM 2004 (four editions). The Importance Of eLearning Content Standards.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

You popped in a CD-Rom, which could hold up to 640mb. Prior to the whole online scene, you could access information via FTP sites known as Archie, Veronica and Jughead (yes, totally true. Formal and Informal – That’s right, it wasn’t all formal, nor was it designed to be. Informal was there.

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The Role of xAPI in Creating Powerful Learning Experiences for the Modern Workforce

Origin Learning

The earlier version of these standards was designed for course content delivered via CD-ROMs. and SCORM 2004. Informal Learning. A research study by Anna Dollerup Lind Larsen of Aalborg University, Copenhagen is quite informative and insightful. xAPI ensures that informal learning is tracked. No Internet?

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eLearning Standards—What They Are and Why They Matter

Trivantis

Just like humans need a common language to communicate with each other, eLearning courses and learning management systems (LMS) need a common language so that courses can send information back to the LMS from students taking those courses. In today’s mobile first, BYOD world, that is not always the case.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. That observation is from 2004. If you accept that CD-ROMs and classrooms are poor substitutes for mentoring and real-time advice, social software starts to look more impressive.

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e-Learning: In Search of a Better Definition

Big Dog, Little Dog

It includes the delivery of content via Internet, intranet/extranet (LAN/WAN), audio- and videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, and CD-ROM. The utilities and capabilities for supporting informal learning, mentoring, communities of practice and other "non-training" interventions. Comments welcomed.