LTSC Report

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LTSC Report

• 6 February - 2007

2
LTSC Status

• No significant change
• Next meeting (plenary) March co-located with
  ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 and CEN/ISSS TC-Learning
  Technology
• Work plan
• Update to 1484.12.1 - 2002 (Learning Object
  Metadata)
• Work on competency standards
• Collaboration with other organizations

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LETSI

• Interested organizations are invited to
  participate in the formation of a
  future-oriented, global collaboration to advance
  the interoperability of technical systems
  enabling learning, education and training (LET)
  through the use of reference models based on de
  jure standards.
• The working name for the proposed organization is
  The International Federation for
  Learning-Education-Training Systems
  Interoperability (LETSI).
• The anticipated participants are government
  agencies, organizations developing LET
  specifications or standards, and organizations
  representing LET communities of practice.

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Background

• SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model
• Reference Model A collection of profiles of
  specs and standards
• Uses five specifications standards. Three are
  IEEE standards. Two are IMS Global Learning
  Consortium specifications
• Maintained by the Advanced Distributed Learning
  (ADL) initiative
• ADL is a U.S. DoD Initiative
• Costs 2M per year to maintain (help desk,
  documentation, test suites, Web site, community,
  Plugfests, conferences, and overhead)
• Adopted by commercial learning technology vendors
• Adopted world-wide (biggest single adopter is
  Korean K-12 system)
• For global stewardship it is better to have
  neither U.S. nor DoD.
• ADL is focused on leading edge research (on one
  hand) and DoD applications (on the other hand)
  not stewardship
• No single organization is suitable. Need
  representation from many verticals, market
  segments, regions, etc. Hence an organization of
  organizations focused on catalyzing rather than
  doing standards.

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Why This Matters

• US Training Education Industry Stats
• 2nd largest industry behind Healthcare
• Almost 1 Trillion per year
• 90 in pre-K through Higher Ed (formal education)
• e-learning penetration 2 in education, 20 -
  40 in other segments. CAGR of 25
• Corporate e-learning industry 6 Billion in 2006
  to grow to 25 Billion in 2010
• 2 of payroll is spent on training (!)
• THIS SPELLS OPPORTUNITY
• Huge, growing industry with societal benefits
• On the beginning of the standards curve

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What Next

• LETSI will have an organizational series of
  workshops and meetings in London in March
• Restricted to serious potential organizational
  participants
• No fee for being at the table, but requires a
  good faith commitment to contribute 10K when
  chartered (assuming the charter is acceptable)
• Propose that
• The IEEE Computer Society participate as a
  founding organization
• Potentially Pending the identification of a
  sponsor to fund participation
• Notes
• This is not just of interest to standards. It is
  also of interest to electronic publications!
• Robby Robson will be at the meeting representing
  the LTSC. However, could represent both, or could
  send another representative
• There may be no fee for certain organizations
  (e.g. the LTSC) that have contributed to the
  existing reference model (SCORM).