We've always said that our people are our most important asset...and as a software company, they're really our only asset. It only makes sense to keep employees comfortable, happy and productive. This Spring we decided that since we needed a few new computers anyway, we…
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There are a few specifications on the periphery of SCORM that add value above and beyond what SCORM has to offer. Two of them, both from IMS, Sharable State Persistence (IMS SSP) and Question and Test Interoperability (IMS QTI) seem to be gaining some traction.…
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Nobody knows how to pronounce Rustici, it's just a fact of life. Since birth I've pretty much just answered to anything that starts with an R. We hear just about every pronunciation you can conjure up, Rust-icky, Rust-uchi, Rust-ecee, Ruustichy, Rustic...one client took the cake…
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Paul Saffo has some interesting things to say, but nothing that jumped out at me until he started talking about Facebook. According to his Stanford students, "Facebook is so over. It's for 30 year olds." Has sentiment on Facebook turned? Next great thought from Paul...…
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Everybody is talking about Facebook... I mean, the blogosphere is just obsessed with it... Me? I'm not totally sold on Facebook as the killer app, but I am fascinated with how cultural/internet phenomena intersect with SCORM and eLearning.Shon Bayer from Enspire Learning in Austin led…
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I spent part of the morning with a topic near to my professional heart... Session 110 was titled "A Web Service Architecture for Integrating SCORM and Experiential Learning". Yes, it's a mouthful.More or less, Ginny Travers was presenting BBN's solution from an ADL prototype that…
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I'm often impressed by the visionary keynote speakers at these conferences. The themes are relatively similar, but they often express them in insightful ways. Sir Ken Robinson spoke today on the importance of creativity among other things. First, I'll share a couple of pearls he…
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Another week, another conference. This time I'm in San Jose, CA at DevLearn2007. My expressed purpose in being here is simply this: I want to understand the innovative technologies available in eLearning. What better place than a conference in Silicon Valley, right? So, three days…
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One message I've been delivering to our customers and prospects a lot lately is this... partial SCORM conformance might actually be worse than no SCORM conformance. If you're going to bother with SCORM at all, be sure that you finish the job so that you…
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Back at it this afternoon... (quotes are loose)John Howley, legal expertise"Tell your lawyer what you need from them." This is the great incentive to get your lawyer up to speed on the things you require.We have developed in the common law tradition, in which judges…
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Session 646 was titled "What if Amazon and Google Partnered to Build an LMS?" Good thought, and something we're thinking about all the time. Google and Amazon are doing some things really well, and we'd love piggy back on many of those concepts.Thoughts from the…
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Don Tapscott (Wikinomics) talked this morning, and spoke on his vision of the future. This is a guy with tremendous credibility in predicting the future. The most interesting thing he shared (to me) was this: Technology, to kids, is like air. It's just there.I'm pretty…
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