1. March 8 -9, 2005 1 SAB Vice Chair's Report IEEE LTSC SPONSOR REPORT March 9, 2005

2. March 8 -9, 2005SAB Vice Chair's Report2 LTSC Mission The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) is chartered by the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activity Board to develop accredited technical standards, recommended practices, and guides for learning technology.

3. March 8 -9, 2005SAB Vice Chair's Report3 IEEE Standards Produced by the LTSC 1484.12.1 - 2002 IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata (LOM) 1484.1 - 2003 IEEE standard for learning technology- learning technology systems architecture (LTSA) 1484.11.2 - 2003 - IEEE Standard for Learning Technology - ECMAScript application programming interface for content to runtime services communication (SCORM API) 1484.11.1-2004 – IEEE Standard for Learning Technology - Data Model for Content Object Communication (CMI Data Model)

4. March 8 -9, 2005SAB Vice Chair's Report4 LTSC Working Groups Learning Object Metadata –Chair: Wayne Hodgins (CA) –Technical Editor: Erik Duval (BE) CMI –Chair: Kerry Blinco (AU) –Technical Editor: Scott Lewis (US) Digital Rights Expression Languages –Chair: Magda Mourad (US/EG) –Technical Editor: Jon Mason (AU) Reusable Competency Definitions –Chair: Claude Ostyn (US / BE) –Technical Editor: Scott Lewis (US)

5. March 8 -9, 2005SAB Vice Chair's Report5 LTSC Standards in Progress XML bindings of –CMI Data Model –LOM Learning, Education & Training Requirements for a Digital Rights Expression Language Resource Aggregation Models for Learning, Education and Training (early stages) Reusable Competency Definitions

6. March 8 -9, 2005SAB Vice Chair's Report6 General Program Bringing together communities while focusing on applications to learning Standards based on existing practice SCORM 2004 & future ADL work to be based on voluntary consensus standards In process of looking forward 3 – 5 years

7. March 8 -9, 2005SAB Vice Chair's Report7 Collaboration & Coordination Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative Aviation Industry CBT Committee CEN/ISSS Workshop – Learning Technology Digital Library Federation Dublin Core Metadata Initiative IEEE-CS Learning Technology Technical Committee IMS Global Learning Consortium ISO/IEC JTC1: SC36 (LET) & SC29 (MPEG)

8. March 8 -9, 2005SAB Vice Chair's Report8 Membership & Participation Dues - $200 per year (to be lowered) Working Groups use Breeze / Conference Calls Typically meet every week or every other week About 25 active members – many times that many on mailing lists F-2-F meetings making a comeback