[Building Sakai] Sakai course on CD

[Mark Norton]

Yeah, there is some background work being done on SCORM.  I think the 
Edia guys in the Netherlands posted something a few weeks ago on this 
topic.  See http://scormplayer.edia.nl/.

Meanwhile, I am in the process of integrating SoftChalk LessonBuilder 
with Sakai.  LessonBuilder is a client content authoring app.  The 
integration would allow you to draw content from Sakai (and other 
repositories), create lesson modules, and publish them to Sakai (or 
BlackBoard, if you care) as zipped HTML files or SCORM (1.2 or 
2004ed3).  I hope to demo this at the Sakai conference next month. 

It's a very cool app -simple and powerful.  I think you'll like it.

- Mark

Plourde, Mathieu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been kickin' and screamin' about better support for SCORM and IMS CC for quite some time now. Anyone besides the CRIM working on this?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> =========================
>
> Mathieu Plourde
> LMS Project Leader
> IT-User Services
> University of Delaware
> 021 Smith Hall
> Newark, DE 19716
>
> Phone: 302-831-4060
> Fax: 302-831-4205
> mathieu at udel.edu
>
> =========================
> ________________________________________
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of John Norman [john at caret.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:21 AM
> To: Philip Fedchin
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai course on CD
>
> In addition to other comments, this sounds like a slightly unusual
> (from Sakai perspective), but very reasonable scenario for IMS Course
> Cartridge support. If you could find or create a lightweight
> distributable IMS Course Cartridge player and distribute/develop that,
> then Sakai will be wanting to support Course Cartridge export (if we
> don't already) as part of its archiving strategy. The reason I mention
> this specification is that the scenario you outline seems very similar
> to the Publisher use-cases that informed the development of the spec,
> and distributing materials on CD that include content and assessment
> is very similar to some of the online active textbook projects that
> publishers are developing and distributing using the spec.
>
> A key issue might be around expectations of communication back from
> the system running the CD, about the activities and scores of the
> student.
>
> John
>
> PS there are commercial Course Cartridge players.
>
> On 5 Jun 2009, at 11:31, Philip Fedchin wrote:
>
>   
>> Dear Collegues!
>>
>> We have a rather urgent need at our university to create CD-versions
>> of our Sakai courses.
>> In relation to this need we are considering a development of
>> specific tool on the basis of OCW. We would be really grateful for
>> your comments/suggestions/expressed interest to participate.
>> Although we are very much looking forward to Sakai 3, but the task
>> is much more urgent and we are forced to base the process on current
>> Sakai 2.5.4 version with the addition of couple Contrib tools. May
>> be you have some ideas concerning more productive way of realizing
>> our short term goals in terms of Sakai future.
>>
>> So, we have in mind the following list of tools/functions available
>> from the disk/local workstation:
>> 1) modules content (Melete and Resources, perhaps Conditional
>> Release);
>> 2) tests (Test&Quizzes);
>> 3) glossary (glossary);
>> 4) search (new tool for the search on CD).
>>
>> The preliminary plan is to develop the tool on the basis of OCW. The
>> tool would consist of server and client parts. The server part would
>> be fullfilled by Sakai through the creation of standard course site
>> with modules created using Resources, Melete, Test&Quizzes. The
>> client part is a player (interface), which allows to present on the
>> CD the course downloaded from Sakai.
>> And we plan to use Adobe Air (Flex) as the technology behind the
>> client part.
>>
>> The standard scenario is the following:
>> 1) Professor creates a course in Sakai using Melete, Resources,
>> Test&Quizzes and Glossary
>> 2) Using the tool the course materials files are downloaded together
>> with the XML file reflecting the structure.
>> 3) The files are copied to CD
>> 4) The course is played from CD using Adobe Air based player.
>> There will be an opportunity if needed to create client interface
>> using SWT (The Standard Widget Toolkit) as we are planning to
>> document and make available the code.
>>
>> Looking forward to your reaction.
>> Best,
>> Philip Fedchin
>> Associate Director for Information Resources
>> Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
>> (St.Petersburg State University & Bard College)
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