eLearning Content as a Service…

Industry-wide we have seen companies struggle to deploy eLearning content.  Using CourseAvenue, we have greatly simplified this process and thousands of our titles are running on a variety of LMS’s. 

However, we do know that overall custom development does very often lead to deployment issues.  These issues can be everything from an inability to load the course into an LMS (e.g. manifest incorrect), to an inability to launch the course (e.g. launch path url’s messed up), to incorrect learner tracking (e.g. course complete never sent).

One way to avoid these issues is to NOT rely on someone simply saying “we are SCORM compliant”…this is a vast oversimplification and the topic for any number of follow-on posts.  Another way to avoid these issues is to understand how the tools used to create your eLearning manage the communication process.  Are you simply relying on a check box to be SCORM compliant?  Do you know the difference between packaged SCORM and deployable SCORM? 

To help with all of this, the professionals at Plateau Systems have an interesting solution to help people out.  They call it “Content as a Service” or CaaS and market their solution as “iContent“.  The thinking is to productize content delivery.  Need to have a new video-based course deployed to a vast number of people and are concerned about launching the content from your single content server?  You could deploy the course via their iContent platform, which could serve the content that is launched from your LMS.  That’s right – you do NOT have to use their LMS to use their content servers.

As a Plateau partner, courses built using CourseAvenue have already proven to work within the iContent infrastructure.

We expect to see more content servers available as services.  Please see our poll and let us know what you do now.