Journal
This is Philip Hutchison's technology journal (aka blog), and is dedicated to exploring web technologies for website development and e-learning courseware development.
Send Captivate Quiz Data to JavaScript
Adobe Captivate 3 doesn’t have a built-in mechanism for sending quiz results to JavaScript. Here’s a workaround you may find useful.
Target settles accessibility lawsuit for $6 million
Eventually someone in the e-learning field is going to get slapped with a lawsuit just like Target did. If that’s what it takes to wake people up, I’m hoping it’s sooner rather than later!
Does SCORM need a little brother?
SCO stands for shareable content object. If a course is not built to be shareable, it isn’t really a SCO, even if it uses SCORM for packaging. Spinning SCORM’s communication element off into its own standard — without the name SCORM — would free SCORM to truly be a Shareable Content Object Reference Model, and would free non-aggregators from having to deal with the complexities of SCORM.
Other recent entries
- ECMAScript vs JavaScript vs ActionScript: Do you know the difference?
- Standards don’t foster innovation, they codify it
- SCORM 2.0 white paper submission
- Adobe Captivate 4 beta coming soon… testers needed!
- Competing RIA technologies
- Choosing a specific technology for your e-learning courseware
- IMS announces new QTI validation service
- What do you want *your* SCORM to do?
- MooTools 1.2 & Opera 9.5 released, FF3 coming soon
- Just the Macs, ma’am
- Link: Opening Up the IMS
- Link: Web Accessibility Checklist
- Link: Hardware tips for screencasting