How do you intergate eLearning and wordpress?

Yeah thats scormcloud, have been playing around, but it launches in a new window. It does have an option called frameset in the scormcloud settings, but am not sure how to create a frame in wordpress.

I can see an unbelievably cool solution with all this, where the course is in a wordpress window and arrayed around it are whatever social media scaffolds you like. And (with the exception of scormcloud) its all free!

I could see the same happening for facebook (as they supply a plugin for that too).

I use this plugin for inserting an iFrame in Wordpress. >> http://blog.deskera.com/wordpress-plugin-embed-iframe/

Dave Mozealous' blog post about custom skins gave me the idea. On this post, he has a sample Articulate course resting inside his article with complete controls as if it was in its own window.

Now just figure out the SCORM piece and you're set!

Cool thanks Kevin,

Spoke to scormcloud guys and they said it can't be done yet and they have no plans to do it - disappointing, I recon traceable eLearning launched inside wordpress, facebook or druple etc would be very cool. Will have a play with the plugin you recommended and see if I can get it working.

OK - here's a supplementary scenario?

Is it possible to launch some eLearning in a corporate environment, and then create a "private"/corporate Wordpress Blog on the standard Wordpress platform, which course attendees can then go to and have discussions about the subject matter? (I appreciate all the issues re moderation etc. but technically is a "private" Wordpress blog possible?)

Thanks

Bruce

Hey Bruce, yes its easily possible, just put it on the corporate intranet, instead of the internet. But the I think the problem is in 'go to", I want the learning to be embedded in the worpdress page (or drupal garden, check it out). When its embedded the collaborative functions are there (chat, reviews, member profiles, forums etc). You could easily blend the collaborative activities into the learning and the learner wouldn't have to go anywhere. I was inspired to pursue this by scormclouds idea of bringing the learning to the learner, not making the learner go to the LMS, so in thier case, the LMS is effectively invisible and they launch scorm trackable learning from wordpress, facebook, wherever they like to hang out. But what I didnt like was that the learning opened a new window and instantly you have taken them away from the place they like to hang out.

the other inspiration was I'm looking for a collaboration based LMS that is totally free (or very low cost), easy to use and administer and requires minimal technical expertise to set up and run. Moodle does not fit the bill,so I was hoping wordpress with scormcloud might.

Challenged with the same thing on my end. This is one of those movements that puts the LMS itself farther back in terms of the direction of the industry. Learners like their space. I do. The ongoing challenge/debate is taking the message, the learning "to" the learner...in their space.

Moodle is about the closest thing. Have you looked at Totara? Kineo's LMS built on the Moodle framework. You customize it, they manage it, and it's subscription-based rather than licensed.

Yeah moodle is the closest thing, I I think they just did a major release that I've yet to check out, the the usability is so horrible usually that I shy away. Will check out Totara, thanks!

can u  help  me  for  the word press  elearning   plugin   name  and  how  to  integrated  send me the  link 

Check it out, a mock up wordpress site with chat, forums, blog and integrated eLearning. Thanks Kevin for iFrame plugin, also buddy press is nice.

http://rsa-training.com.au/home/

Downside is no tracking. Could use ScormCloud, but then the eLearning has to launch in a new window. Am having a play with Moodle 2.01 now, to see if its usability is hopefully vastly improved.

I'm following this thread with interest - I am looking for a similar solution.  

James - you have helped me out on my question - I notice that you reference ning in this thread - can you publish articulate courses to launch directly in a ning site or did you just use it to create content instead of articulate products?