I am taking a second look at SCORM, the de-facto standard for creating e-learning content, supported by all major LMSes. Looks like there is only one engine that can parse SCORM files and it is commercial/closed source.
This cannot be good for education. Massimo On Nov 28, 5:03 am, blye <blyen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was researching LMS type stuff around the net and found eXe, a very > attractive open source tool for creating Lessons ( standards > compliant ) and generating the result as a sequence of html pages and > resources. exeLearning.org or core-ed.net. > > I am experimenting to see if the eXe pages can be 'wrapped' in web2py > ie. > > Idea > web2py app maintains a table of categories and a table of lesson > titles in these categories. This is fairly standard. > > the user can then select and hopefully start a Lesson > > 1. is it possible to shell out to the lesson index.html from web2py? > ( run the set of html files stored in local folder in separate browser > window). > (( the lesson is obviously Not a web2py app itself.)) > > Where and how should the Lesson resources be stored and referenced > from web2py field? (All eXe generated lessons begin with index.html) > My trials with redirect and static have not worked. :-( > > 2. It would also need to upload a zip file and unzip it into folder. > ( still researching this :-/ > > I suppose the ultimate idea is for the user to be able to upload > lessons created with eXe for other users to download and use. > Any ideas welcome. > > strength to the LMS mill!
