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Break it down! (No it’s not Hammer Time! Yet)

eLearning 24-7

If your goal is just to post the course on a server and let people access it, just for the sake of learning and you don’t care about tracking of any sort – then no, you do not need any compliance standard. Why would I want a SaaS solution over hosted on my own servers product? No, just kidding. Just a guess here!

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K-12 and LMSs are Broken, Who’s to Blame?

eLearning 24-7

Uptime – Most systems today who are in the cloud use server farms such as Rackspace and Amazon S3 – thus that “uptime” is tied to those servers. 2004, AICC, Common Cartridge. Private server. Another vendor showed me a school district whose RFP was 36 pages in length. SCORM including 1.2/2004,

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Exploring eLearning Standards for the WordPress LMS Industry with Andy Whitaker at Rustici Software

LifterLMS

In this LMScast episode, Andy Whitaker explore the landscape of eLearning standards, focusing on SCORM, AICC, and XAPI for WordPress LMS. There’s SCORM, there’s XAPI, there’s CMI, 5, LTI, AICC. SCORM and AICC specifically tend to be mostly about content plus system interoperability. What’s the difference?

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 2 (M-Z)

LearnUpon

RFP (request for proposal ): Document prepared by organizations to help assess LMS vendors during a selection process. If a self-hosted solution is selected, the team must decide how major applications, like servers, databases and load balancers, are resourced and budgeted.

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Podcast 26: How to Extend Learning Content Availability – With Troy Gorostiza

Talented Learning

So let’s say your content is located in your LMS on one server. Access to that content is a problem for people using a different LMS on another server. The SCORM standard won’t let your customers view the 101 course just by pointing to that content on your server. When to issue an RFP (or not). Unfortunately.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

The first official eLearning content standard, AICC was developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee in 1993 as a CD-ROM based standard. A predecessor to SCORM, AICC was difficult to work with and many steps were required to get content in the format running in a learning management system (LMS). RFP (Request for Proposal).