I didn't really know Philip Dodds but I'm certainly aware of the work he (along with people like Claude Ostyn, Tyde Richards, Wayne Hodgins, Peter Hope and others) contributed to the early days of educational technology. Of Dodds, who passed away five years ago, Avron Barr says "Philip's work in creating SCORM — envisioning, designing, and cat-herding — was critical to this first major period of commercial success for educational technology... The industry-wide agreement on SCORM, the Sharable Content Object Reference Model, allowed authoring tools to package course materials so that they'd run on any company's LMS." Barr segues into a call for a similar effort today, "a comprehensive agreement about data interoperability will eventually be required to support broad commercial adoption of the hundreds of new product ideas today from researchers, entrepreneurs, and established vendors."
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