Michael Allen's 2009 e-Learning Annual

2.4. TRANSITION

The e-learning industry's transition to the Internet hasn't been nearly as smooth or effective as that of the movie industry. One of the biggest issues is that, instead of embracing a new paradigm for distribution, we continue to think about design as we did in the PC era. If e-learning is going to make a truly effective transition to the Internet, we need to abandon legacy models. They were all designed around the PC model for distribution, communication, and way of doing business. For example, SCORM and AICC are focused on "installing" the content in a learning management system (LMS) and then distributing it to the learner. The Advanced Distributed Learning Institute has gone one step further and created CORDRA (content object ...