I’ve worked in the learning standards space for a long while now, and over the last 12 years I’ve often been asked “What even is a learning standard?” and “What makes up a learning standard?” Let’s face it, if you’re asking those questions you’re probably…
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We thought that there were only so many human beings who wake up early on a Tuesday morning excited to hear a talk about eLearning interoperability standards. Boy, were we wrong! We were shocked to see how many people joined Chris Tompkins and Brian Miller…
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This blog post is part of our “Ask Andy” series in which we publish Andy’s plain-spoken, straight shooting answers to common or uniquely interesting (eLearning) questions. If you have a question, you can always fill out this form and ask Andy too. Hi Andy, Customers…
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This blog post is part of our “Ask Andy” series in which we publish Andy’s plain-spoken, straight-shooting answers to common or uniquely interesting (eLearning) questions. If you have a question, you can always fill out this form and ask Andy, too. Hey Andy, Our company…
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I’ve spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks learning about some things that are happening with ADL (the governing body for SCORM and closest thing we currently have to a single steward for xAPI right now). My first tl;dr Some funding…
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There are many organizations that have multiple LMSs, and many of them have the same problem—they wish they had just one LMS, with all of their data in one place. With Watershed LRS and SCORM Engine (or SCORM Cloud), we now have an easy solution…
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When it comes to getting something for free, I’ll do just about anything. Last summer, we had a new ice cream store open in East Nashville. The night before they “officially” opened, they were offering free ice cream. I stood in line for close to…
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Blackboard is big time. Blackboard Learn™ leads the higher education learning management world. Blackboard Learn serves more than 20 million learners. And starting in 2011 (or thereabouts), Blackboard is going to be rocking the SCORM Engine in Blackboard Learn. We are nothing short of thrilled…
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Ye Olde Switcharoo, from HogueLikeWoah Do you remember the old phone switchboards? They connected a caller to a receiver, and it required some handholding on the part of the operator, right? As much as we'd like for SCORM to work perfectly every time, and without…
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I love when I come upon some independent research that informs me of something I didn't know. Truth be told, I base a lot of my assumptions about LMS cost on the original price offered by my first eLearning employer. (List price at PureSafety back…
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Earlier this year, Rustici Software and Saba embarked on a joint project to integrate the SCORM Engine with the Saba Learning Suite. This project showed the US Army that it is be possible to integrate our SCORM Untethered offline player into the Army's ALMS (which…
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This week was a huge success. In 5 days, we completed two full implementations of the SCORM Engine. In each case, our client had an existing LMS that supported users and assignments... they just didn't support SCORM or AICC. In a matter of 3 days…
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