Sorry for being a bit off topic here ...
I just would like to reiterate my concerns with focus on SCORM. Since the LAMS project has limited resources like every other project (including commercial ones), I suggest to put all energy into improving the learning design features, in particular find ways for being able to insert multiple access to writing tools like a single wiki within the same sequence (as opposed to pointing at support activities).
Let's have a look at Moodle: It once was (and still is) marketed as constructivist system. A good constructivist system ought to have many good constructivist tools (official Moodle distro has none) and even simple ones like a wiki or a file repository (both are unusable in Moodle 1.9x). Investing into things like permissions (hundreds), SCORM etc. turned Moodle into just another LMS (and which is just a bit slower than most), i.e. it Moodle became less and less interesting because somehow the original metaphor was lost....
SCORM 1.2. is a US army standard for low level facts and skills learning and such it does the job, but I frankly don't see the necessity to have this in LAMS, a simple IMS CP is good enough if someone wants to import a menu of webpages in some standard format. Now of course there is SCORM 2004, something that academics seem to ignore. If there are resources for developing SCORM stuff then it should be this (including SS and QTI support), but then LAMS has it's own sequencing and testing. Therefore, if standards compliance is an issue, I'd rather vote for some kind of IMS LD export/import (though mapping to tools would be major head ache).
Anyhow, more importantly my questions is: should LAMS evolve into just another LMS (students staring at pages and doing quizzes) or should not improved support for activity-based learning be THE design priority ??
Daniel :)
Posted by Daniel Schneider
