Open and interactive e-learning system and method

A method for delivering e-learning standard-compliant content, comprising:

• receiving a request from a learning management system of a user to access content residing on a content delivery network (CDN);
• configuring a proxy with license information indicating a specific instance of licensed content, the configuring being performed by a network-side licensing/reporting server in response to the request;
• providing the proxy to the user;
• receiving, at the licensing/reporting server, a license verification request from the proxy;
• providing, from the licensing/reporting server to the proxy in response to a successful license verification request received from the proxy, the content player location designator, wherein the proxy is further configured to instruct a learner's browser to load a content-specific course runtime from the content player;
• loading the course runtime from the content player to the learner's browser;
• instructing the learner's browser to request the licensed content from a content delivery network (CDN), the instructing being performed by the course runtime;
• loading, the licensed content from the CDN to the learner's browser;
• reporting, from the content player to either or both of the licensing/reporting server and the proxy, the learner's status relative to the content;
• and
• reporting from the proxy to the user's LMS the learner's status relative to the content.

An e-learning proxy comprising:

• instructions stored on a non-transitory computing-device-readable medium, wherein the instructions are configured when executed on a computing device to cause the computing device to:
• send a request to a network-side licensing/reporting server to verify a license to a specific instance of content in response to a learner's request for access to the content;
• receive from the licensing/reporting server, in response to a successful verification of the license, a location designator for a content player;
• and
• instruct a learner's browser to access and load the content player via the location designator;
• wherein:
• the proxy instructions include license information rendering the proxy specific to the specific instance of licensed content;
• the proxy itself does not contain any e-learning course content;
• the proxy is configured to be loaded from the user's LMS to the learner's browser in response to a request from the learner for access to the licensed content;
• the proxy instructions are configured, when the proxy is loaded to the learner's browser, to instruct the implementation script to initialize a runtime compliant with the e-learning standard;
• and
• the proxy instructions are further configured to use the runtime to communicate with the LMS and to report status updates of the learner's interaction with the content.