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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

Meanwhile, JVC’s VHS standard wasn’t quite as good, but they openly licensed it. Consider the internet; developments on top of the TCP/IP protocol like SMTP and HTML allowed a variety of tools to work together to bring us email and the world wide web. In it, Sony came out with a better standard, but kept it to themselves.

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Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing

Tony Karrer

Text-to-Speech Examples In this post, we will look more closely at costs of Text-to-Speech and issues around TTS Voice Licensing and Pricing. TTS Voice Licenses The TTS voice vendors enforce the intended usage of a voice by a voice license, which precisely describes the restrictions on the use of the voice.

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Tin Can API, the evolution of SCORM

Paradiso

Originally developed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), an initiative of the Unite States Department of Defense, SCORM was designed to standardize and modernize their training courses. If you have a whole library of courses that are not optimized for Tin Can API, then an LRS may not be the right solution for you.

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Phew! Reflecting on #ASTD10

Learning Visions

People are frustrated with ongoing licensing fees, lack of good customer support and responsiveness from traditional LMS vendors, and slow time to implement. But did you know there is actually a Mr. SCORM and that he is the fabulous Aaron Silvers of ADL ? Yes, indeed. Companies want the flexibility and freedom of an open source model.

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Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning

eFront

In exchange, we only ask you to use the images according to our Licensing. All photos on this web site are public domain. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photos license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. by Christopher Pappas M.B.A., Hallo, again.

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Free e-Learning books

eFront

Novices will find information on what other people are doing in this medium, which kinds of training and education are best suited to it, how to convert existing classroom content for delivery online, how to lead effective and compelling live learning events on the Web, and how to promote these events to obtain maximum participation.

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xAPI, LRS – The Interview

eLearning 24-7

Aaron, can you tell me a little bit about your background and how you became involved with ADL? Two months after my layoff, a company called CTC recruited me to work for ADL. I worked with ADL from 2003-2006 and participated in the Technical Working Group afterwards. Last heard ADL calls this new standard the Experience API? (on

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