SCORM, AICC, and points beyond

Alphabet Soup for the E-learning Soul

Chris AdamsHandshaw, Inc.ASTD Day of Learning3 December 2008

“You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.”

- Jeph Jacques

Why should you care?

Where have we come from?

SCORM• Name:

Sharable Content Object Reference Model• Source:

US Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Distance Learning (ADL) initiative

• Purpose: Interoperability, Accessibility, Reusability, Durability, Maintainability, Adaptability

• First Released:January 2000

• Latest Version:SCORM 2004 Version 4 (Announced June, 2008 - release pending)

AICC

• Name:Aviation Industry CBT (Computer-Based Training) Committee

• Source:Airline industry consortium

• Purpose: To establish hardware standards for training delivery in the airline industry

• First Released:1989 AGR 002 (Delivery platform specification)

• Latest Version:2005 AGRs 011 (PENS) and 012

PENS

• Name:Package Exchange Notification Services

• Source:AICC

• Purpose: To automate the exchange of content between systems

• First Released:2005

• Latest Version:1.0

DITA

• Name:Darwin Information Typing Architecture

• Source:AICC

• Purpose: To divide content into small, self-contained topics that can be reused in different deliverables

• First Released:June 2005 - v1.0 approved as an OASIS standard

• Latest Version:1.1 approved August 2007

“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Comparing Standards

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XML - APIFlat files - HTTP

Web 2.0to

Web 3.0 (3di)

Internetto

Web 1.0

Client-Serverto

Internet

SCORM 2.0SCORMAICC

Where are we now?

SCORM Examples

• ADL SCORM Conformance Test Suite• SCORM Package Import• SCORM Run-Time Communication• Content Communication

Where are we going?

There must be some SCORM around here somewhere!

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SISO

• Name:Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization

• Source:US Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Distance Learning (ADL) initiative

• Purpose: DARPA’s SIMNET program

• First Released:Sprint 1997 Simulation Interoperability Workshop

• Latest Version:October 2008 - SISO-STD-007-2008: Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL)

SCORM 2.0

• Name:Sharable Content Object Reference Model 2.0

• Source:LETSI (Learning-Education-Training Systems Interoperability)

• Purpose: To become the new “home” of SCORM and push standards forward through diverse communities of practice

• First Released:October 2008 – Over 100 white papers presented at first major conference

• Latest Version:TBD

Thanks for playing along!

Presentation and associated links will be available at:

www.handshaw.com