So, barring some breaking SCORM news, we’re going to focus our writing in a couple of other places: xAPI.com and RusticiSoftware.com. Thank you following along, commenting, sharing and supporting this blog. Now please go ahead and redirect your attentions to the others. We’ll have lots more to say there.

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We spent a lot of time digging into Google Analytics and other fun tools to ensure that the content visitors find most useful on this site is still easy to find and much easier to access from multiple devices.

We hope you like the new look and updates that we’ve made. We’re also human. So if we moved something or you can’t find a SCORM resource that you rely on, let us know. SCORM.com is here to help you understand more about the standard and we’re still here to help you in any way. So, ask us anything. Really.

– Your Friends at Rustici Software

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So, to thank you for your patience and acknowledge that it is in fact 2018, we’re launching a newly overhauled version of SCORM.com–coming soon to your web browser or mobile device!

What to expect with the new website

Don’t worry–we’re not taking away any of the articles, references or content that you currently find on this website. If you want to dig into SCORM Run-Time reference, Sequencing and Content Packaging, this is definitely the site for you. We are updating things a bit so that all content related to the SCORM standard is still available here (including the famous Golf sample SCORM courses) in an easy to use, responsive design. (Yes, a responsive website!!) And we’ll continue to have our site search so you can always find the article you’re looking for if you haven’t bookmarked it by now.

What you won’t find here

We are also overhauling RusticiSoftware.com, which is where you’ll soon find information on the products and software solutions that we offer and all of the supporting documentation for our products including SCORM Engine, SCORM Driver, SCORM Cloud and others. You’ll start hearing us call them Rustici Engine and Rustici Driver, because they support more than just SCORM these days.

You might have noticed that we’ve been pretty quiet on this blog post over the past few years. While SCORM is still very much used widely across the industry, the standard itself is no longer evolving. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to update our products when it comes to SCORM support. You’d be amazed at what an update in Chrome can do to a SCORM player. We will continue to evolve how our products support SCORM but we’ll talk about that more on the RusticiSoftware.com blog when we have new product releases. You can sign up to subscribe to that blog here. So going forward, the SCORM.com blog will be available as an archive since so many of these articles are still very relevant after all of these years (even if they looked a bit dated).

When does all of this happen?

Expect SCORM.com to look different later this month. And as always, whenever you have a question about SCORM, just ask. We’re not going anywhere. We’ll just be a bit more stylish the next time you see us.

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What’s changing?

Coming soon, SCORM.com will have a whole new look. Don’t worry, the content and resources that you rely on the most aren’t going anywhere. We’re just updating the look of the website to provide you with a more modern, user friendly experience. And most importantly, you can always reach out to us with any questions when it comes to SCORM or working with the eLearning standards, before or after the updates.

What’s already changed?

If you’ve been following SCORM.com for awhile, you might be familiar with Mike Rustici and Tim Martin, the co-founders of Rustici Software (the folks behind this site). As you might know, Mike Rustici departed Rustici Software back in 2016 to become the CEO of Watershed LRS. More recently Tim Martin has moved on from Rustici Software to become the Chief of Innovation and Products for the Learning Technologies Group (LTG), our parent company at Rustici Software.

With Tim’s recent departure, we’re excited to announce that TJ Seabrooks will now lead the charge as the new CEO for Rustici Software. TJ most recently served as the Director of Products and brings a wealth of technical leadership and expertise to his new role.

What does this mean?

Nothing, really. Aside from SCORM.com (and all of our websites) getting a face lift, it’s business as usual over here.

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ADL continues to house information about SCORM on their websites, and it’s still the best place to go to understand the state of SCORM adoption and certification. It will continue to be the best place for that.

SCORM isn’t evolving much these days. It’s a solution to a narrow problem that works pretty well for most of its users. If I had to guess, I would bet that about 1% of ADL’s attention goes to SCORM. Whether that attention goes to zero or not, SCORM will continue to be a massively adopted solution to a problem millions of people have… delivering content and reporting results in an LMS.

If you have questions about SCORM, or want to adopt it, Rustici Software is still the best place to get started. Let us know if we can help you.

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It was almost three years ago when ADL asked the e-learning community to help them with research to create a new, simpler, more powerful e-learning standard. E-learning standards are what we do, so of course we jumped at the opportunity.

The result was Project Tin Can, which resulted in the Tin Can API. We wrote the first version of the API, version 0.8, then handed it over to ADL and a vibrant open community.

Today it looks like a few guys in Nashville, TN (and a few stragglers up North) managed to transform our slice of the world.

Learning isn’t going to be tracked the same way that it has been. You want to know more about learners than just “someone completed a course” or “someone scored 98% on an test”. You want to be able to track activities that take place outside of an LMS, like serious games, mobile apps, group projects, conferences, simulations and so much more. You want to be able to correlate real-world performance with training data. And, you want all of this learning and performance data to live in one system.

The Tin Can API makes all of this a reality.

Already about 60 products/companies have adopted beta versions of the spec. Now is the time when the rest of the industry joins in.

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But, SCORM is showing its age. It has carried us as far as it can take us. It’s time for something new, something fresh, something innovative. Something that can propel this stagnant industry forward and become its workhorse for the next decade.

Fortunately that something is here. The Tin Can API is the future.

From now on, we will be a “Tin Can First” company. We announced our “Tin Can First” strategy at our company-wide planning meeting last week; we have pivoted.

Tin Can is happening. Tin Can is real. Tin Can is going to revolutionize the industry, and we’re going to lead the way. You should come along.

We are going to ensure Tin Can’s success. We are going to help our customers embrace its capabilities. We are going to help foster a community of adoption and provide adopters with the resources they need to succeed.

We are going to develop new and innovative products around the Tin Can API. We will dedicate our energy, thoughts and innovation to projects empowered by the Tin Can API. Tin Can will be our growth engine.

We aren’t abandoning SCORM, there’s just not much new that can be done with it. We will still maintain our products and help people implement SCORM. You will still get the same great support you have come to expect. We still love you Grandma SCORM, but we’re going to spend a lot of time with the Tin Can Toddler we have running around.

We started a new website dedicated to the evolution of the Tin Can API. Check out tincanapi.com and sign up to receive updates from that site if you haven’t already.

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Nearly every EdTech company seems to believe that they can live in isolation. EdTech companies must find a way to share data and experiences and content and workflows. APIs are great, and most of this new breed do have an API, but it’s completely impractical to expect that these companies will build to suit each and every distinct API for sharing experiences and data, etc.

• When Aspen goes from 5th grade to 6th grade, will her experiences in elementary school follow her?
• When Amelia dominates Princess Math on Saturday morning, will her teacher know that she’s mastered single digit addition on Monday morning?
• Will the state of California be able to take their students’ history and granular experiences with them when they’re forced to buy a less expensive student management system?

It’s time for EdTech to embrace a shared language for communicating these experiences, and you better believe I have the right answer for them.

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But we can’t do it. We can’t manage learning. So what the heck are we doing with ourselves? Why are we building learning management systems and specifications that help them work better?

It comes down to this: learning is so important that we have to try. We have to do everything in our power to put our students, kids, learners, employees, and volunteers in the environment that gives them the best chance to succeed.

Success, in all its varied definitions, is a goal that we can all get behind.

Try this exercise:

If you had to guess whether or not someone was going to succeed in the task they are about to attempt, if your life depended on it, what would you want to know more than anything else?

The task could be anything.

• Will Michael Jordan make the game winning shot?
• Will Sally make her sales quota?
• Will Chuck crash his forklift into the wall?

What would you want to know?

I’d want to know that Michael’s made that shot time and time again. I’d also like to know just how many times he’s practiced that shot in that situation.

I’d want to know if Sally has ever had a sales quota before. I’d want to know how many books she’s read about sales techniques. I’d want to know how much research Sally has done to learn about the product she’s going to sell.

I’d want to know if Chuck has crashed his forklift before. I’d want to know if he’s crashed his car. I’d want to know if he’s completed the required forklift driving training course. I’d want to know if Chuck has ever has a conversation with a mentor, perhaps one who’s had a forklift accident before.

I’d want to have a deep understand of their respective experience.

Is there any better predictor of future success than prior experience? We may never be able to look inside our brains and see what we’re learning, but if we can increase our understanding of experiences and their connection to success, then we’ll have accomplished something. If we can collectively build “success management systems”, I think we’ll really have accomplished something.

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One learner launching a course in a browser from within an LMS that can’t talk to other LMSs.

SCORM’s done a lot a great stuff, but it does come with baggage, doesn’t it? Today’s learning world requires something more, doesn’t it?

Project Tin Can gave us the opportunity to throw off SCORM’s shackles, and we took it. Tin Can provides the plumbing that will free us, as an eLearning industry and beyond, from these limitations. ADL is sprinting toward a wide release of Tin Can API, and it’s going to change that opening statement dramatically.

One learner or many launching a course or any other activity from wherever they like on any device and communicating that experience to an LMS or any other system, all of which can talk to each other.

We’ve all wanted SCORM to get out of our way at some point, the Tin Can API is happening. So, now what? What experiences will you design? What tools will you build?

We’re excited to announce TinCanAPI.com to focus on all things Tin Can.Take a look and let us know what you think.

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