Tutorial: Build SCORM Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS by B.J. Schone. Here are step-by-step instructions for building e-Learning lesson template, a framework you can use to create lessons rapidly.
The template contains basic navigation and SCORM functionality. You will be able to drop in content, interactive exercises, and assessment quetions. The template will do the rest of the work, reducing development time and allowing you and your team to focus on lesson content and interactivity. When I began working as the sole e-Learning developer for Ferrellgas, a company with several thousand employees, I realized that my time was going to be stretched thin. I was hired to select, implement, and manage a Learning Management System (LMS), and then to develop e-Learning courses for the LMS. After several months, we implemented the LMS and I was ready to begin developing courses. Following a bit of research, brainstorming, and testing, I developed an e-Learning lesson template, which is essentially a framework I can use to build lessons rapidly.
Getting started. Development Tips: Audio and Video with HTML5 by Mark Lassoff. “Much of the power of HTML5 lies in the JavaScript interfaces associated with some of the new tags.
The audio and video objects have a number of JavaScript properties and commands associated with them that allow you to make a more powerful media player. For example, through JavaScript you can control elements like the current position in the song, the volume of the media playing, and the current state of the media player (playing, paused, or stopped).” What’s the big deal about audio and video features in HTML5, you might be wondering? Audio and video have been integrated into browser-based applications for years. While the idea of audio and video in Web browsers is not revolutionary, the way HTML5 delivers it is. Up until HTML5, a plug-in delivered audio and video. What you need This tutorial can be completed with any text editor. Getting started Start by placing a new folder on your desktop – or some other convenient location in your file system.
<! <! Working with video A little Javascript. Development Tips: Writing Your First JavaScript Application by Mark Lassoff. “Now with our problem stated, we need to come up with a solution.
Most programmers would recommend you come up with your solution using pseudo-code. Pseudo-code, also called an algorithm, is an English language description of how to solve the problem.” Lately, I have found myself telling my clients that JavaScript is becoming the most important programming language (some would call it a scripting language) in the world. Because it runs in the Web browser, JavaScript has opened a world of powerful techniques to any developer who displays work on the Web — or uses HTML.
For those trying to enter the mobile space, JavaScript is critical as well, as it runs in mobile browsers such as mobile safari for iOS and mobile Firefox for the Android device. Learning Solutions Magazine: Home.