Category: SCORM

Enhancing Learning through Technology – Part I

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This is a talk I gave recently to a group of educator/trainers within the U of M Health System. Although it contains many UMHS-specific references, the concepts outlined in it can be applied to other training environments as well. There’s nothing particularly original here, just some suggestions for how to select among different technologies commonly available. This was the first part of a two-part presentation. The second part featured tips for creating engagement and improving digital photography.

 

Best Practice Showcase: Enhancing Learning through Technology

Our team has lots of tools you can use to create online training. There are so many choices, in fact, that it can be difficult to decide which to select when you’re starting a new project.  

To help you sort through all the options, I’m going to give you some typical instructional situations and suggest tools that might best support them, without breaking the budget in the process. These are all things you can use – they don’t require a computer science degree to get a good result!

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A SCORM-Ready Template: Part 6A. Adapt the SCORM template for Moodle

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The HTML SCORM template works with Moodle, but it needs a few modifications to work perfectly.

  • Server side include statements in the content pages must be replaced with the real code
  • The closing javascript on buttons in the navbar needs to be modified from “top.window.close()” to “window.close” because of the Moodle uses a different learning activity window structure than our own in-house LMS.


I’ve made these changes and created a “Moodleized” version of the template for you to download:

DOWNLOAD MOODLE VERSION OF TEMPLATE

This template is an unscored activity and should just mark itself complete. I will soon be posting one that will allow scored interactions on each page as well.

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SCORM 2.0 workshop

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The SCORM Workshop held by LETSI (Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability) is over, and some clear direction emerged from the blizzard of whitepapers, informal submissions and comments over the last few months. I was very impressed by how fast they moved things forward in a few days.

The design process will be driven by use cases generated by the people who actually use SCORM applications in their work: Instructional designers, administrators, teachers, and other strategic adopters all over the world. This is significantly different from the way SCORM was originally designed, by a small community of LMS vendors and the U.S. Department of Defense, one of the BIG USERS of training and tracking.

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A SCORM-ready template: Part 2E. Add the video player to your learning module

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If you are in a hurry, here are two ready-to-use pieces of player code to choose from. All you need to do is choose one, edit a few lines and drop the code into your page. You will need a playlist for both of them, although it can be very simple for the single file player. Save the playlist to the media folder (there is probably a sample one there already in newer modules).

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A SCORM-ready template: Part 2A. Add Flash Video to your learning module

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What files are required to add video to your learning module?

The player we are using for embedding streaming media into the SCORM template. is the Jeroen Wigering media player. Some of the necessary files are already included in the template and do not need to be touched:

  1. includes/mediaPlayer.swf (already included in template)
    this file generates the player according to the settings you include in the content page.
    mediaPlayer
  2. js/swfObject.js (see for more info on swfObject
    this file contains the code necessary to avoid the ActiveX problem with embedded SWFs in Internet Explorer, and generates embed code used by other browsers. A reference to this file already exists in the head of each module page, so you do not need to include it again.
    swfObject
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