Good PENS pals -- dominKnow LCMS development team earns kudos

We've just noticed that PENS has offered congratulations to dominKnow Learning Systems for adding the new standard to the list of industry compliances and standards supported by our Learning Content Management System, the dominKnow LCMS.

Those congratulations were extended last December when we released version 5.1 of the dominKnow LCMS, which included PENS compliance. PENS particularly applauded what it describes as dominKnow's "impressive time to market", noting that we announced support for the standard only 90 days after members of the dominKnow development team had attended the inaugural PENS Plugfest. The Plugfest got under way on Sept. 19, 2006, in Vancouver B.C., and we rolled out our PENS compliance on Dec. 19. The Plugfest was attended by members of the dominKnow LCMS development team, who were also attending the simultaneously-held AICC meetings. Adding PENS to the list of e-learning industry standards we already conformed to (which include AICC and SCORM) was a pretty easy decision for us.

In fact, when I asked why we made the move to add PENS support, our CTO Luke Hickey said, "because it's cool."

In addition to the coolness factor, PENS helps us help our users get their online learning content into the hands of learners more easily, by simplifying the way e-learning courses move from a content and authoring system like our LCMS to a Learning Management System (LMS). In fact, the PENS specification describes this as "single click publishing" - and it doesn't get much easier than that.