Comments on: Why LETSI Matters http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/10/why-letsi-matters/ Learning Nerd. Husband. Dad. Rocker. Cobbler. Coder. Strategist. Visionary. Hugger. Dude. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aaron http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/10/why-letsi-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Aaron Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:50:00 +0000 http://www.aaronsilvers.com/?p=890#comment-923 So much good momentum and ideas have stemmed from that meeting. I know I'm easy on getting nostalgic, but there was definitely a spark that lit last week that I haven't seen before in meetings like this. I'm pretty stoked. So much good momentum and ideas have stemmed from that meeting. I know I’m easy on getting nostalgic, but there was definitely a spark that lit last week that I haven’t seen before in meetings like this. I’m pretty stoked.

]]> By: Ethan http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/10/why-letsi-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-912 Ethan Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:39:38 +0000 http://www.aaronsilvers.com/?p=890#comment-912 Aaron, good stuff. Yes-many times i've dealt with clients who are hampered by the requirements of say saba etc. Heck I'm sure they get annoyed with my courseware when it does not support a specific feature to add to their courses. I do feel we are more responsive than the LMS's but our codebase is smaller. But anything in the standard that gives clients the ability to use vendor solutions but not enter a walled garden will be good for everybody. "it will likely be a Service-Oriented Architecture approach" - yea! Happy to pitch in on your scenarios. Aaron, good stuff. Yes-many times i’ve dealt with clients who are hampered by the requirements of say saba etc. Heck I’m sure they get annoyed with my courseware when it does not support a specific feature to add to their courses. I do feel we are more responsive than the LMS’s but our codebase is smaller. But anything in the standard that gives clients the ability to use vendor solutions but not enter a walled garden will be good for everybody.

“it will likely be a Service-Oriented Architecture approach” – yea!

Happy to pitch in on your scenarios.

]]> By: philip http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/10/why-letsi-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-911 philip Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:58:34 +0000 http://www.aaronsilvers.com/?p=890#comment-911 <blockquote>it's pretty clear that SCORM 1.x is a <b>vendor-centric</b> model of organizational learning</blockquote> YES... i hadn't really thought of it in such clear terms, but that makes perfect sense, and really gets to the heart of many of the debates on the LETSI site over the last month. SCORM -- so far -- has really aimed at making it easy to work with vendors. that's a good idea i suppose, but also very constricting, meaning that you have to work within whatever parameters a <em>vendor</em> wants to support, regardless of your own pedagogical approach or whatever bleeding-edge technology you want to use. if SCORM 2.0 uses a service-oriented architecture approach, i think it could really open things up for us. of course, we'll still have to deal with storing data, which means using a standard data model, like CMI, which could be equally constricting, esp. when dealing with interactions or quizzing. we'll have to see how that shakes out. thanks for the update! - philip

it’s pretty clear that SCORM 1.x is a vendor-centric model of organizational learning

YES… i hadn’t really thought of it in such clear terms, but that makes perfect sense, and really gets to the heart of many of the debates on the LETSI site over the last month. SCORM — so far — has really aimed at making it easy to work with vendors. that’s a good idea i suppose, but also very constricting, meaning that you have to work within whatever parameters a vendor wants to support, regardless of your own pedagogical approach or whatever bleeding-edge technology you want to use.

if SCORM 2.0 uses a service-oriented architecture approach, i think it could really open things up for us. of course, we’ll still have to deal with storing data, which means using a standard data model, like CMI, which could be equally constricting, esp. when dealing with interactions or quizzing. we’ll have to see how that shakes out.

thanks for the update!
- philip

]]> By: Brian Dusablon http://www.aaronsilvers.com/2008/10/why-letsi-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-910 Brian Dusablon Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:24:37 +0000 http://www.aaronsilvers.com/?p=890#comment-910 Awesome news, Aaron - thanks for the detailed report, and keep us posted. I'm definitely in to help when and where I can. Awesome news, Aaron – thanks for the detailed report, and keep us posted. I’m definitely in to help when and where I can.

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