Today I had to explain to a customer how to register time and completeness in a SCORM learning path, considering he's got Flash content and he doesn't know anything about SCORM.
This is what I answered (with little changes)
The idea is that Dokeos deals with SCORM contents by providing a JavaScript API (a library that can be called from the Flash) to enable SCORM features.
To enable this, there are various steps that need to be taken...
1. Your content should be a SCORM package.
2. Each step of your content should send a LMSInitialize() call to the Dokeos SCORM API when opened.
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I added a nice changelog (or rather "new features" log) on the Dokeos 1.8.6 page (see link above), and also took the opportunity to refresh the schedule :-)
I sure am discovering a lot of interesting stuff on the net this week. I'm just done reading and watching a video on the eLML website. First reaction: interesting project.
Apparently, some of the developers of fellow e-learning management system OLAT are involved in the development of eLML as well.
eLML is just an XML schema for writing learning content.
Reading PHP Architect's November 2008 issue (and in particular the Google Gadgets article by Timothy Boronczyk), I remembered reading a name yesterday (on the Elgg.org features list) that I have seen very often and which I never got to the bottom of: OAuth.
Well, today I decided that this ignorance was enough and that it was time to get there and see what it is... and it just happens to be exactly what we need in Dokeos to secure our web services!
I didn't know about that (or maybe I did and forget), but there's an apparently superb (opinion based on screenshots) tool in GPLv2 to create social networks, called Elgg. The tool integrates a high amount of connectivity backends for other social networks apps and is certainly something we'll be looking into in the next weeks, to see what can be done and what high-value services we can offer based on this.
I was made aware of this book by the MIT on "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge" from the OLPC-sur (One Laptop Per Child, South America) mailing-list.
The next development release is planned for the 7th or 8th of January 2009. We are first making sure all changes are in the database, then we will make sure everything works, then we'll release this version. Once it is released, there will be a 1 week debug period. Once this week is over, we will release the first Release Candidate and, if nobody complains, the Stable Release one week later.
I've been asked to provide and article about the Dokeos community progress a few days ago, so I wrote a base and we finally get this piece of news on the Dokeos main page.
The activity of Dokeos has truly increased lately, for 3 reasons. Partly due to an increased activity in the Dokeos 2.0 development.