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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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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

eLearning 24-7

Every time I write about the course standards, whether on my blog or, lately, on LinkedIn, I receive a lot of responses, feedback, and folks wanting to know more. Some vendors won’t use SCORM because it takes time to add and implement it. SCORM, or Shareable Content Object Reference Model, is a learning interoperability standard.

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Learning technology procurement: 5 best practices for L&D

Rustici Software

There are a lot, but one has to be hanging out and chatting with other eLearning standards nerds. It’s important to remember that once you find your dream tool, the challenge of procuring it begins. Take the time to inventory your existing relevant technologies to see if they are compatible or incompatible with your chosen standards.

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An explanation of cmi5 in (mostly) plain English

Rustici Software

While cmi5 only explicitly defines the necessities for handling xAPI activities in the context of a launching system, it’s capable of recording and reporting or retrieving content-defined data, which means content authors and designers are able to add features without sacrificing plug and play interoperability. Source: ADL cmi5 Specification.

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Best of the Best: Content Authoring Tools

eLearning 24-7

Again, not every tool below is SaaS based, but at some point, you have to move to the SaaS world, especially if you are offering or saying you do – some type of mobile learning functionality. I’ve seen some authoring tools that fit most of the criteria above, but whose ease of use is substandard or even really bad.

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Taking cmi5 adoption further by developing a Conformance Test Suite

Rustici Software

For the last 18 years, some of the most important work we’ve done at Rustici Software has been the standards-based efforts we’ve worked on with the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL). At Rustici, our software is primarily responsible for helping eLearning organizations achieve “interoperability.”

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SCORM – Set of Standards that make Courses and LMS Compatible

Paradiso

SCORM is nothing but a set of standards that make the two i.e. the courses and the course-carrier LMS compatible with each other. It is more or less the same way the bulb and a socket are compatible, i.e. they fit the same standards. SCORM and Authoring Tools. These tools are both free and paid.

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