1. THE ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED LEARNING (ADL) INITIATIVE
Paul Jesukiewicz
Director, ADL Co-Lab
February 16, 2004

2. The “A” in ADL SCORM Air Force Industry Academia Army Publishers•
Publishers
Air Force
CDC
Dept of Labor
Server
K-12
Global Knowledge
SCORM
This slide returns to the vision of the future that guides and motivates the ADL initiative. We, along with many other stakeholders, envision a future focused on the integration of cooperatively created objects -- a future that replaces today’s private creation of objects intended for one-time-only use. As the slide suggests, accomplishment of this vision is keyed to the availability of courseware objects that are genuinely shareable. Such sharability does not now exist. We need capabilities that allow us to:
- Move courses from one courseware system to any other,
- Reuse content “chunks” across different courseware systems, and
- Access searchable content or media repositories created by any courseware system.
At present, we lack these enabling capabilities. We need to develop them. The technical capabilities emphasized by the ADL initiative are intended to do that -- to develop sharable courseware objects with the functional capabilities needed to fulfill our vision of the future of instruction -- a future that we are beginning to view as inevitable. The uncertainty lies in whether it will appear sooner or later.
What, then, must be done to make courseware objects globally available to servers assembling material in real-time and on demand?
Job Performance
Shareable Content Objects from across the World Wide Web
Assembled in real-time, on-demand
To provide learning and assistance anytime, anywhere

3. Sharable Content Object
Reference Model
A software model that defines the interrelationship of course components, data models, and protocols such that content “objects” are sharable across systems that conform with the same model.

4. ADL Resulting in a World Wide Community for Learning Technology
CEN/ISSS
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36
PROMETEUS
LOM (metadata) is an approved IEEE standard.
ARIADNE
Dublin Core
Singapore
AICC
API based on Appendix B in the AICC CMI document and widespread SCORM usage is now an approved IEEE standard.
IMS Asia
ALIC
IMS Australia

5. ADL Model for Standards Evolution
-SCORM is not a standard, rather it is a model that references standards.
ADL Initiative works with a variety of organizations to coordinate the development and adoption of technical standards that enable Internet-based delivery of rich learning content.
Among ADL’s greatest achievements has been the coordination with multiple global organizations to establish a unified standard process that is industry-based.
With research and development efforts being feed into organizations including AICC, ARIADNE, Dublin Core, IMS, etc, these research and development efforts grow into e-learning specifications.
When specification is mature enough and of interest, ADL provides testing and proof of concepts in the ADL Co-laboratories. ADL feeds lessons learned, deficiencies, and comments back into the specification groups. This will occur again and again before the document moves from specification to accredited standard.

6. ADL Certification and Adopters
ADL Certified Products are certified through one of the ADL Certification Testing Centers.
28 LMS/LCMSs have been certified
10 Content products have been certified
94 products/vendors have become SCORM Adopters
to include test logs and descriptions of SCORM products

7. Enterprise Exemplars
Org
Users
Learning Content*
Standards
Usage
Oracle
600k
450,000 objects
SCORM, QTI, EP
6k/day
UFI
900k
900 courses
SCORM, LOM, CMI, QTI, LIP
50k/day
Cisco
100k
1,400,000 objects
SCORM, LOM
MSFT
80k
1,000,000 objects
SCORM, LOM, QTI, CP HP
160k
5,000 courses
SCORM, QTI, AICC
5k/day
Sun
30k
SCORM, AICC
* courses/objects – cataloged, tagged and searchable

8. SCORM 2004 SCORM Content Aggregation Model (CAM) 1.3
IEEE Learning Object Meta-data
IEEE P – Draft Standard for XML Binding of LOM
IMS Content Packaging Version 1.1.3
IMS Simple Sequencing Version 1.0
SCORM Run-Time Environment (RTE) 1.3
IEEE P – Draft Standard for Data Model for Content Object Communication
IEEE P –Standard for ECMAScript API for Content to Runtime Service Communication
SCORM Sequencing and Navigation (SN) 1.3

9. SCORM 2004 Sequencing Benefits
Predictable, consistent ordering and delivery of learning activities, in an instructionally meaningful manner, regardless of delivery environment
Benefits
Defines sequencing information and behaviors that enable SCORM 2004 content to reproduce standard CBT-Type sequencing in an interoperable manner.
Code for sequencing learning resources no longer needs to be embedded within learning resources, reducing coupling and increasing reusability

10. SCORM 1.2 to SCORM 2004 Conversion
ADL is developing tools to assist content conversion:
Content Packaging Converter (for manifests)
SCO Wrappers (two versions)
Meta-Data Converter
Sequencing Rule Examples

11. ADL – Future Directions
Continuing commitment by ADL Sponsors
and plan next generation
Registration of objects and repositories
Integration with other technologies

12. ADL – Integration and Research Areas
Content Object Repositories Discovery and Resolution Architecture (CORDRA)
Simulations and High Level Architecture (HLA)
Job Performance Technology (S1000D) – Hand held, wireless
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Massive Multiplayer Online Games
Web-services or other messaging technologies as Integration Technology

13. Phases Of SCORM Evolution
Expanded Scope: Integration
With Other Architectures
Simulation
Performance Support
Mobile Systems
Intelligent Tutoring
Knowledge Based Systems
Others…
SCORM “1.X”
Stable and Complete at “2004”
Maintain
Extend
New Architecture R&D
Track evolution of the Web
Web Services
Semantic Web
DAML+OIL
New Knowledge Representation Approaches
Determine “Next Generation” Platforms
Today

14. Questions?