Mastery has announced a new low-cost, SCORM-compliant Learning Management system. It’s loaded with enterprise features and starts out at only $995.00. It provides a great option for small organizations to experience the benefits of online training. http://www.masterylms.com
SCORM is an acronym for Shareable Content Object Reference Model. It is a technical specification for elearning. As the name implies, it helps content become “shareable” among other complying learning management (SCORM LMS) or content delivery systems. A SCORM LMS is a learning management system that is compliant with the SCORM specifications.
In the early days of computer-based training, you had to rely on a single vendor for courseware and a single vendor for learning management, because course material was not “shareable” across multiple platforms. If you wanted to play a course on your learning management system, you had to write a custom interface so that new course content could be launched and tracked on your system. With a SCORM LMS you can be assured that course content can be shared across multiple vendor platforms.
It was unfeasible to write custom interfaces every time that you wanted to add a new course, so the training industry got together to establish a set of standards and specifications that would allow all courses to play with all learning management systems. This standard would allow ANY SCORM-Compliant course to “plug and play” with ANY SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.
Browser Window Close Capture for SCORM 1.2(ZIP file)
This is a good piece of code to help intercept the Browser close when users improperly exit. If they close the browser, their record doesn’t get recorded properly. This prevents that from happening by intercepting the browser close and calling the LMSFinish command.
Free Guide for Creating SCORM Interactions(PDF file) This guide from Ostyn consulting that is great for learning how to use the interaction data model specified in SCORM 2004. http://www.ostyn.com/standards/docs/SCORM_Interactions.pdf
Free Technical Guide for SCORM 2004 Developers (PDF file) This document from Ostyn consulting is a great practical guide that contains a SCORM overview as well as great examples. It discusses the manifest and how an SCO communicates with the runtime.
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