We take the view here that there is substantial consensus around content
packaging standards and we can safely move forward using the IMS Specifications
(which are extended in SCORM). There is little consensus around user tracking
with some using server-side tracking, some using SCORM client side tracking and
Microsoft doing their own version of client side tracking with .LRN. We are
currently working on a model that does server side tracking unless presented
with a SCORM object when it will use the client side tracking. In
general, our experience is that client side tracking is 'fragile' and very
platform sensitive.
There appear to be 2 generally accepted, but different, definitions of an LMS.
One focusses on scope for tracking students and the other on enterprise
integration (e.g. with Student Records and Finance). We tend to use the former,
but I always ask anyone who says they have an LMS... 'what do you mean by that?'
