[Xerte] New Technologies

[Rochford, Thomas]

Dear Julian,

I think you do yourself an injustice here because I know very little, having
only heard it talked about at a conference. The main advantage over IMS and
SCORM is that it does all that Interactivity that SCORM does but abstracts
this from the platform layer.

The Common Cartridge Web page lists the benefits as follows:

*Greater choice of content: Enables collections of learning resources of
various types and sources.
*Reduces vendor/platform lock-in: Establishes course cartridge native formats
endorsed by educational publishers, and supports a wide variety of
established content formats, eliminating platform lock-in.
*Greater assessment options: Explicitly supports the most widely used
standards for exchanging assessment items.
*Increases flexibility, sharing and reuse: Fits within the educational
context of enabling instructors to assemble lesson plans of various resources
and publish those as reusable and changeable packages that are easy to
create, share, and improve

http://www.imsglobal.org/commoncartridge.html

I don't think Moodle supports it yet but I notice that thet OU materials are
all available in this format, so something must!

Maybe someone else on the list knows more than me - it wouldn't be hard!

Kindest Regards,
Thomas

Thomas Rochford, e-Learning Advisor, JISC Regional Support Centre - Eastern
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-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 05 February 2010 2:28 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] New Technologies

You probably know more about Common Cartridge than I do - what does it offer
the work we are doing with toolkits?

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Rochford, Thomas
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 1:55 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] New Technologies

Dear Julian,

I would say Common Cartridge will probably need to be supported as will some
form of mobile screen presentation. I think there are already formats for the
latter. Most Mobile devices will be able to use Flash by Q3 2010 as far as I
know. New versions for Symbian and Windows Mobile are said to be in the
pipeline and Adobe has said it will also produce something for the iPhone -
Read Veronique Brossier's article at
http://www.insideria.com/2009/10/flash-and-iphone.html. There are some
interesting comments too.

Kindest Regards,
Thomas

Thomas Rochford, e-Learning Advisor, JISC Regional Support Centre - Eastern
Tel: 07500 669002 e-mail: t.rochford at rsc-eastern.ac.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 05 February 2010 12:05 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] New Technologies

Good people,

Something to muse on on a Friday afternoon: what new technologies do you
see impacting the elearning landscape in the next 3 - 5 years? What
emerging technologies do you think will have the biggest impact on the
way elearning is conceived, delivered and produced?

We are looking at developing a new strategy, and your views would be
very interesting! 

Thanks, have a great weekend,

J
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