1. LETSI The Vision and the Plan
Kickoff Meeting London March 18, 2007

2. What is LETSI? An international, not-for-profit, civil organization
A catalyst for global eLearning adoption across all market sectors: compulsory education, higher education, corporate training, military training
A community of teachers and technologists
Collaborating with standards bodies and industry associations
Supporting national eLearning standards efforts
Encouraging innovation in eLearning technology
Whatever the initial sponsors decide it will be
Mission, scope, membership categories, budget, & fees are all to be determined by the Organizing Committee
The future steward of SCORM – a public trust
LETSI will have many activities
It’s first major responsibility will be to take over stewardship of SCORM from the ADL
But the sponsors will decide the mission, scope

3. History of SCORM Stewardship Effort
Nov 1997
ADL Initiative started
Jan 2001
SCORM 1.1 released
Nov 2004
Dr. Mayberry signals future transfer of SCORM at Masie Center meeting, NYC
Oct 2005
Melbourne Declaration – agreeing to agree on future SCORM steward
July 2006
Stewardship meeting in Madison – resolves to begin implementation of the Melbourne plan
Oct 2006
SCORM rd edition released
Jan 2007
LETSI Prospectus – The International Federation for Learning-Education-Training Systems Interoperability (Working Name)
Madison meeting: US, Canada, Korea, Japan, Australia, UK, ILCE, ADL, IEEE, ISO

4. Current Stewardship of SCORM at the ADL
Technical Stewardship (Administration, Support, and Planning)
Vendor Support and Conformance Testing
Outreach and Market Development
Help Desk, Public Website, Technical Support
Maintain & Release SCORM documents, reference software, conformance tests, content examples, …
SCORM Change Control Board
Independent Certification Facilities
Academic Co-Lab (Madison)
Partnership Labs:
Australia UK
Canada
Korea
Latin America
Taiwan (pending)
SCORM Technical Working Group (Vendor and Adopter Volunteers)
Workforce Co-Lab (Memphis)
Specification Development (with organizations like IMS, IEEE, AICC)
Plugfests - testing systems interoperability
Joint Co-Lab (Orlando)
The vision
material developed in one system can be
sharable content objects
systems interoperability
market mechanisms to promote innovation and quality and reduce costs through compatibility and re-use.
SCORM has outgrown the ADL
International community of vendors, adopting companies, and nations have a vested interest in SCORM and related standards
Cross-sectors, not just military training
The panel which follows, and the World of SCORM panel tomorrow will speak to the breadth and diversity of the SCORM community
ADL SCORM will become a “profile” of the international standard as it evolves
Just as MedBiquitous has profiled SCORM for medical training
Th ADL has moved on
SCORM is not required across the DoD for procurement of training systems and content
Building an infrastructure to support SCORM content sharing across the DoD
To reduce costs via re-use and re-purposing of existing materials
To create a single, unified marketplace for innovative training systems
This effort requires new technology (CORDRA, componentized design) and organizational change (incentives for re-use)
This will be the ADL’s focus for the next several years.
Long-term planning: expert panels, workshops, and consultants
Proposed “SCORM Forge” Project
Annual Implementation Fest
Studies of training impact, technology innovations, and market trends
US Gov. Interagency Coordination
Liaison with Standards Bodies
Partially funded by ADL
Not funded by the ADL
Funded by ADL
Legend:
Participation in I/ITSEC, ITEC and other conferences
30 January 2007

5. Proposed Structure for LETSI
Stakeholders
Minimal Staff Project Manager Chief Architect
Steering Committee
Sponsors
Spec. Development & Standards Bodies
Product Groups
e.g. SCORM
Marketing,
Outreach
User input
Partners
Experts
This is notional. The idea is the new steward have a skeletal paid staff and that all work be done by volunteers.

6. LETSI – Next Steps
By design, the LETSI Prospectus left many questions unanswered, to be decided by the community:
Is a new organization needed?
Who should participate in LETSI? Who can vote?
How should the organization be governed?
What is a fair membership fee structure?
Monday’s Open Form on Global Governance
Tuesday Morning’s working meeting
Identification of potential sponsors and volunteer organizers from the international community
Formation of an Organizing Committee to produce LETSI’s charter and operating plan
Chartering meeting, September ‘07, Toronto (tentative)
The Prospects and future documents will be available at

8. The Steward’s Responsibilities
Promote, sustain, update, and extend the SCORM standard and the vision of objects, interoperability, and sharing
Oversee the Change Control Board and maintenance of the documents, test suite, and sample runtime environment
Globalize SCORM through efforts for recognition by national and international standards bodies
Embrace and support the SCORM community and continue to develop SCORM human resources around the world
Promote and support vendor adoption of SCORM and provide certification services, problem-solving support, and avenues for vendor input
Certify and coordinate national and regional SCORM authorities
Maintain the quality and reputation of SCORM and protect the integrity of standard
Develop a business model to for necessary operations, supported in a fair manner by all stakeholders