By background, Mike and I are both technical folks. We went to the same school, graduated from the same program. While we both speak conversational English (as opposed to off putting tech), neither of us has great expertise in marketing. Opinions? Yes. Expertise? Not so…
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We've been slaving away on our SCORM Engine 2009.1 release around here and John stumbled upon something pretty exciting yesterday. I thought I'd go ahead and share it... Mind you, these are anecdotal, but fairly representative, numbers. We often use some old Photoshop courses, provided…
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On our website, we invite every visitor to ask us questions. Generally, these questions are about SCORM or something eLearning related. Sometimes, though, they aren't. These questions, sometimes, are among my favorites... When you, our peeps, come up with some great questions, we'll share them...…
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We want creating applications with the SCORM Cloud to be exceptionally easy for you. Without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to the SCORM Cloud .NET Demonstration Application! (What a great name.) Head on over to our support portal and download the sample application…
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I wanted to take a moment to thank Dave Evans at AccessPlanIT publicly. They've been using the SCORM Engine for content delivery in their Accessplan LMS since November 2008. This, alone, is worthy of thanks. Today, though, I wanted to thank Dave for something else...…
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Dear Drupal User. I'm so happy for you... your relationship with Drew Pal has brought so many great things to your life and your work... I couldn't be more thrilled for you. In every relationship, though, I know tough times come along, and I can…
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Countless sites have discussed an important topic in time management... the important/urgent matrix. In my simplistic terms, these folks are encouraging us all to work on important/non-urgent things more than we do. Apparently we are collectively distracted by the less important/more urgent tasks. Email, I…
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No, unfortunately this post doesn't mean we're hiring right now. But the next time we are, it would serve an interested applicant well to read this post from 37 Signals. Plenty of people know how to code and have years of experience to show for…
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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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SCORM Untethered is our disconnected player. We've built it as a set of components, and frankly, we're not publicizing it a lot these days. It solves certain problems very well, but it has its limitations as well. (It only supports Windows clients and .NET server…
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The chips I often eat at lunch give me time to read a bit more broadly on learning and education than our typical SCORM minutiae. My hope is this balance helps us innovate and avoid the myopia that can overcome those obsessed with learning standards.…
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My recent vacation seems to have inspired Tim to write a few blog posts. I love that he did, but I think he missed an important point in his post about why we chose not to release the SCORM Engine under an open source license.…
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