It therefore allows for a collaborative development between a subject specialist (e.g. Like Dreamweaver, eXe facilitates wysiwyg editing, including the provision of ‘automatic markup’, which can then itself be edited within the eXe editor (by clicking on ‘html’).eXe takes away the problem of ‘which media player do I use’, and, once you state what the original is, will automatically choose the player for you.Problems in layout within any of the original materials can be ‘tinkered with’ very easily within eXe once templates have been set up.eXe is allowing rapid conversion of material from the original materials (script sheets for the scholar’s desktop, + images) into a single entity package that can have one to many learning topics, all accessible through a menu, or internal to, and as hyperlinking between, the course material pages (SCORM won’t properly allow the latter, which is one of my major problems with it as this hyperlinking systemology is a fundamental of the WWW).
Although a certain level of javascript can be incorporated, more advanced javascripting, for instance internal popup windows (which are compliant with accessibility) must be included once the material is published, which is fine if you have the html know-how to be able to copy and paste certain coding-phrases.Therefore, our materials are not being made SCORM-ready or even SCORM-compliant at this stage (although we can provide such very easily) It does enable the use of SCORM packaging, although that has major downsides which, for educational resources I strongly do not recommend, particularly if those resources are supposed to act independently of a VLE (for instance, SCORM produces a manifest, rather than including the menu within the materials, which is problematic if you have a number of different topics being explored as a subject entity, which is the usual case with e-learning: it can be done the other way, but it is time-consuming, and time is something no-one has these days).Personally, I am against the first (use of SCORM) and in favour of the second (use of more advanced javascripting, where appropriate), given that most VLEs cater for these anyway. The following two are rather equivocal in terms of people’s judgement (with two schools of thought).