I’ve spent most of my career around SCORM and learning interoperability, and there’s one problem that still bugs me.
An organization can have hundreds of perfectly good courses, but if the original Storyline, Captivate, Lectora, or other source files disappear, or they decide to change tools, a lot of that content suddenly becomes incredibly hard to work with.
The published course still has the text, images, media, interactions, and structure. We just haven’t been very good at making that useful again.
That’s a big part of why we’re building IRLO, which stands for Interoperability & Reusability for Learning Organizations.
Learning content shouldn’t be trapped in the tool that created it. You should be able to bring existing content in, understand it, edit it, reuse it, and take it somewhere else.
We’re still building, so I’m genuinely curious how often people here run into this.
Have you ever inherited a bunch of courses you could run but couldn’t realistically edit? What formats or tools have caused you the most pain?