WRT #1. Today, we have no intent to extend the CMSs to publish content to the SCORM Cloud. Love to see it done, yes, but that’s not what we’re talking about today.

WRT #2. Yes. I believe that each of the CMS style open source products could benefit from great SCORM support. Some have it to a point (Moodle comes to mind, with its imminent 1.2 certification) and others have it not at all. Clearly I believe in great support, and I want each of these systems to have it. They can do so by integrating the Cloud and allowing us to host/deliver their content.

WRT Wordpress. Your vision fits pretty well with mine. When I see WP, I see a system that already tracks users. I picture a plugin that ties it together with SCORM Cloud and allows administrators to upload SCORM Content to WP. The administrator can then assign content to the various users. These users would then have a sidebar widget (theoretically) that would allow them to launch their content and see their progress.

From my point of view, any system that tracks users can be extended quickly to import/deliver/track SCORM training. That’s the first big leap here.

As the “futurist” that you are, Aaron, you’re starting to pick up on some of the fun stuff that can happen AFTER people start adopting a centralized delivery mechanism. Those who are willing (you would have to opt in) could share their data across the segmented SCORM Cloud installations.

That shared data would allow you to do some of the things you’re imagining. What are people training on? Where? Imagine a content author soliciting feedback from a centralized system ACROSS the various systems using it.

And then, down the road (again, for those who CHOOSE to), you could much more easily allow folks from various entities to collaborate, discuss, etc… At the risk of sounding cliche, centralized content delivery could make it possible to “break down walls” that divide LMSs today, again, for THOSE WHO WANT TO.

So, yes, Aaron, you and are dreaming of some fun things that could happen. Today, step one, is getting many systems tied together with the Cloud so that they can do the basics well… From there, we extend.

Thanks again for taking the time… other thoughts/ideas are MORE than welcome.

1) These CMSs act as authoring tools to publish to the SCORM cloud.
2) These CMSs present SCORM content FROM the SCORM cloud.

Obviously, you could also combine the two (I guess).

I’ll take a stab at Wordpress.

I guess there’s a compelling thought to turn a group blog into a collaborative authoring environment for learning content. Okay. But you’re still making it a one-post, one-content deal.

There’s probably a variety of ways to “present” content from the Cloud into a WP blog. You could mash-up the keywords or categories (or both) from teh blog with metadata in your content repository in your Cloud account, to auto-suggest content from the Cloud. That’s interesting. Mzinga does this (so I hear), but at least that’s finally a reason to do any kind of metadata.

You could tie an e-commerce plugin into WP or Joomla to unlock E-Learning content so you could support custom training centers where the Cloud acts as the back-end and the reporting system. Mashup that reporting with whatever transaction records, etc.

I mean, to me these are obvious examples. I don’t have a picture of how I’d mashup the data you have in the Cloud with other data streams. Maybe scatterplt by geographic location what E-Learning subjects are popular? A mashup of content metadata and Google Maps? Could be interesting — a WHAT AND WHERE are we learning today?

Just my .02.

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