From BAA to DODI: How we've been involved in xAPI

From BAA to DoDI

Acronym Alert! There will be many referred to in this post. See glossary below for easy reference. Two years ago we answered a BAA from ADL to conduct research for updating the DoDI 1322.26- “Development, Management, and Delivery of Distributed Learning.” Spoiler Alert- ADL accepted…

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DevLearn 2017: Tim is speaking and We're attending

DevLearn 2017: Tim is speaking and we’re attending

We’re looking forward to DevLearn 2017 in Las Vegas (and HR Tech in Vegas tomorrow!). Our CEO, Tim Martin has a DevLearn session about the “Jobs to be Done” by L&D software. I’ve had a sneak peak of the upcoming content and I have to…

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Content Controller won a CLO award for technology innovation

Excited to win a CLO award for technology innovation!

We are thrilled to share that Chief Learning Officer (CLO) magazine announced the winners of the 2017 Learning in Practice Awards and Rustici Software won a Bronze Award for Excellence in Technology Innovation! Our submission recognized the work the SANS Institute has done using Content…

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How we decide to do work

How We Decide to Do Work

A couple of days ago, I wrote about the state of ADL and Rustici Software’s take on it. One of the real community leaders, Aaron Silvers, then shared his perspective, partially in response. If you read them both, you’ll see some overlap and gaps in…

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Responding to recent news regarding ADL's funding

Responding to recent ADL funding news

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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cmi5 and Expanded PENS Support in SCORM Engine 2017.1

One thing we love about supporting eLearning standards is that by helping others comply with the specifications that best suit their needs, we get to watch them be more impactful in the space. To that end, we’re happy to include cmi5 and expanded PENS support…

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Rustici's Cinco de Mayo Family Meal

2017 Family Meal Recap

What does a pirate ship, Pikachu and a piñata have in common? Aside from the fact that they all start with the letter P, they are also all things found at various Family Meals at Rustici Software this year! You may recall that we kicked off a…

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SCORM Engine 2017.1 is released!

We are excited to announce that the latest version of SCORM Engine--SCORM Engine 2017.1--is now available! The release includes a bunch of new, awesome updates, which we highlight below. Plus, we launched Managed Hosted Services this year. So if you’re looking to take some hosting…

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Helping Lockheed Martin and HCLabs play SCORM and xAPI

At Rustici Software, we’re lucky to have a slew of great clients doing interesting things with the products we provide. Yes, we solve very specific problems, but, regardless, it’s rare that any two use cases are alike which keeps me constantly engaged (with no shortage…

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A fridge full of beverages

Magic! (the Whiteboard, not the Gathering)

I’ve previously blogged about what it’s like to keep our office kitchen stocked. The TL;DR version is this: I make multiple trips weekly to Costco and Target and buy a whole lot of LaCroix.   Yes, it’s true that we consume a lot of food…

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We call it… eLearning Content Distribution Solutions

You may have noticed some new terms we’ve been using around here to describe some of the problems our software helps to solve when it comes to distributing eLearning content. Over the years, we have described our solutions as Cross Domain, Dispatch and more recently,…

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