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Thoughts on Learning in 3D- Virtual book Tour

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Tom King

I’m fortunate that this blog is an early stop on the “#Lrn3D” virtual book tour for Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration by Karl M. Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll. There is much to come … Continue reading →

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IMS QTI Still Relevant Despite 2.1 Being Revoked

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Tom King

IMS withdrew the QTI 2.1 spec, despite some existing implementation and information going back to 2006 that is was imminently ready for use. The official IMS wording seems to be toned down a bit, but there is also a clip … Continue reading →

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SCORM Vulnerabilities + IMS Spec withdrawal = Excitement

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Tom King

Exciting times for elearning standards. Lots of discussion about two unrelated events. First, SCORM “cheats” are published and the community rallies to address the issues. Secondly, and coincidentally, the IMS recently withdrew the QTI spec from further work by IMS … Continue reading →

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They Saw It Coming, BUT… Newspapers Now, LMS Next

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Tom King

I just read Clay Shirky on Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. Substitute “LMS/Central Training Department” for instances of “Newspaper/publishers” and it is a real wake-up call. Read it. Think about it. Who are the real-world, radical change-observing “pragmatists” and who … Continue reading →

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Elearning Events Updated for 2009

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Tom King

The Elearning Events Calendar is updated with key elearning conferences and trade shows from January 2009 – June 2009. I didn’t do a good job of updating it from August-December 2008, but I’ll try to be better. If you are … Continue reading →

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Will Adobe XFL revolutionize Rapid Elearning Workflows?

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Tom King

For some time Adobe insiders and followers have been talking about XFL, a package file format for Flash (here, here, here and more in search). XFL combines XML and some binary assets in a zip archive. Currently Adobe CS4 applications … Continue reading →

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CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver 8 has been released

Posted on March 10, 2006 by Tom King

I just checked the Macromedia area of Rapid Intake website and saw that CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver 8 is now available for download. As a reader observed in my earlier post about the CourseBuilder beta, this release makes CourseBuilder compatible with … Continue reading →

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Flash in a Flash: Collaborative Template-based Elearning Authoring

Posted on March 6, 2006 by Tom King

I don’t know quite what to call them, but they are growing in popularity. They are web-based applications that create "LMS-ready" elearning, supporting SCORM and/or AICC standards. A year or two ago, this seemed to be more of an in-house … Continue reading →

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