Learning Technology Standards

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Learning Technology Standards

• Presented on behalf of
• The IMS Global Learning Consortium
• The Advanced Distributed Learning initiative
• The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
• and related organizations
• Robby Robson
• Chair, IEEE LTSC
• President CEO, Eduworks
• rrobson_at_eduworks.com

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Outline

• The value
• The process
• The players
• The program
• Invitation to participate
• Questions and answers

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The Value of Standards

• Standards make learning technology
• Durable, Portable, and Scalable
• Not locked in to single source solution
• Not built on special tricks
• Systems interoperate in a networked world
• Affordable and Maintainable
• Larger market justifies producer investment
• Stable industry justifies consumer investment
• Modularized for maintenance

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The Value of Standards

• Standards help the learner too!
• Raise content quality
• Replace time on infrastructure by time on content
• Define best practices and platform for innovation
• Support industry-wide content repositories
• Make Learning Valuable
• Help target competencies and certification
• Make learning more relevant to work context
• Make results more portable

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The Value of Standards

• Standards establish an industry

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The Standards Process
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The Standards Process
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Standards Stakeholders
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Some Standards Players

• Consortia gathering requirements and developing
  specifications
• IMS Global Learning Consortium
• CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technology
• Customized Learning Experiences Online
• Aviation Industry CBT Committee
• HR-XML Consortium
• Energy Industry CBT Alliance

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Some Standards Players

• Testbeds and Organizations Creating Reference
  Models
• Advanced Distributed Learning initiative
• Advanced Learning Infrastructure Consortium
• Education Network Australia
• European Commission

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Some Standards Players

• Formal Standards Bodies
• IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
• ISO/IEC Joint Technology Committee Subcommittee
  on Standards for Learning, Education, and
  Technology

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IMS Contributing Members

• ADL Co-Lab
• Apple
• Artesia Technologies
• Becta
• Blackboard
• Boeing
• Campus Pipeline
• Centra Software
• CIC
• Cisco Systems
• Click 2 Learn
• Calif. State Universities
• Can Studios
• CMU
• DETYA
• Digital Learning Interactive
• Digitalthink
• Docent
• Educational Testing Service

• EDUCAUSE
• Eduprise
• Epic Group
• Fretwell-Downing Group
• GIUNTI Interactive Labs
• IBM Corporation
• Industry Canada
• JISC
• LON
• LUVIT
• Miami-Dade Community College
• Microsoft
• MIT
• NIST
• NYUOnline
• Oracle
• OU Netherlands
• Pearson Education

• PeopleSoft
• Prometheus
• R5 Vision
• Saba Software
• SCT
• SUFI
• Sun
• THINQ
• Thomson Learning
• UFI
• Unext
• UC - Berkeley
• University of Michigan
• University of Wisconsin
• University System of Maryland
• US Department of Labor
• Virginia Tech
• Virtual Education Space
• WebCT

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ADL Plugfest Participants
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IEEE LTSC

• 185 Individual Experts
• Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
  China, France, Korea, Germany, Greece, Indonesia,
  Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Hong Kong,
  Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
  UK, US, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia
• Vendors, Government agencies contractors,
  Academic institutions, Consulting/solutions
  firms, other learning technology organizations

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The Program Learning Content
Create
Learning Content Authoring Tools
Chunk
Repurpose
Assemble
Learning Catalog
Find
Import
Track
Deliver
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IMS Program

• Specifications that have been developed
• Meta-data
• Content Packaging
• Question and Test Interoperability
• Learner Information Packaging
• Enterprise
• Specifications being developed
• Sequencing
• Learning Design
• Digital Repositories
• Competencies
• Accessibility

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ADL Program

• Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
  A Bookshelf of specifications and standards
• Metadata from IEEE
• Communication Structure from AICC
• Packaging Sequencing from IMS
• Document and test IMS and other specifications
• Formal standardization through IEEE

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IEEE Program

• Metadata about to be standardized
• Liaisons with other organizations and standards
  bodies
• Active work on
• Content
• Identifiers
• Architecture
• Vocabulary
• Graphics
• Other topics

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Testing and Certification

• AICC has certification program in place
• IMS is setting up an extensive program
• Planning phase taking place now
• Will create consortium of consortia
• Win-win financial model
• ADL has developed test suites
• An important IEEE role is to work with
  certification and testing labs

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Invitation to Participate

• The IMS Global Learning Consortium
• Contributing Members
• specification development, review, approval
• leadership
• Developers Network Members
• exchange of tools, techniques, and trials
• Dissemination and Participation
• workshops, briefings, information
• Conformance Testing

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Invitation to Participate

• The Advanced Distributed Learning initiative
• Co-laboratories
• corporate, federal, and academic
• Dissemination and Participation
• publications,
• plugfests,
• work with other organizations

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Invitation to Participate

• The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
• Working Groups
• standards, technical reports, guides
• open, consensus-driven process with due process
  and right to appeal
• Dissemination and Participation
• publications, liaisons with other organizations
• open to all with a material interest

Next Meeting in Hawaii in December, 2001
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Benefits of Participation

• Contacts and coalitions with other industries
• Ensure standards meet your needs
• Certification conformance testing
• Access to information, vendors, experts, etc.
• Without you.
• Shift will happen
• Infrastructure and interoperability wont

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Questions Answers

• Value
• Process
• Players
• Program
• Participation

www.imsproject.org www.adlnet.org ltsc.ieee.org r
robson_at_eduworks.com www.eduworks.com
541-754-1215 (Phone) 541-760-6899 (Mobile)
Thanks!