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AICC, Aviation Industry CBT Comitee
It was the first organization created to develop a batch of guides to allow courseware interchange among different LMS.
Aviation Industry has been traditionally a big Computer Based Training consumer so in 1992 they decided creating a committee to develop guides for their learning providers. This way they could grant courseware requirements and homogeneous results.
Although AICC has published several guides, the more followed has been AGR 010 about LMS platform and course interoperability.
With this guide two fundamental problems are solved:
- Seamless loading of third party courseware on any LMS. To accomplish this objective the courseware must be a totally independent entity from the LMS, and a system should be developed to describe course contents and requirements in order to be understood by any LMS.
- LMS to course and course to LMS communication, in such a way course would get the necessary user information from the LMS, and later transmit to the LMS user assessment and interaction results in order to be saved and statistically treated.
The second objective is achieved defining the communication system between platform and courseware and the minimum data requirements to be interchanged between courseware and platform. AICC defined two systems, one more simple and used based upon HTTP protocol and a complex one API based.
Rigth now AICC’s AGR 010 guide is the “de facto” standard in the eLearning industry.
http://www.aicc.org
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IEEE LTSC Learning Technologies Standards Comittee.
It’s an organization promoting the creation of a ISO normative, a real standard for wide acceptation. They took AICC committee works and improved them by creating metadata (data about the data, a detailed courseware contents description more detailed than the one defined by AICC).
http://ltsc.ieee.org
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IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
This private corporation founded by the main players in the eLearning sector took IEEE works an step ahead. Their objective was creating a practical file format implementing IEEE and AICC guides.
They defined an XML specification for courseware contents description. So any LMS could load any course reading its configuration file IMSMANIFEST.XML.
http://www.imsproject.org
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ADL SCORM
It’s a public organization created by United States Government, another eLearning big consumer.
This organization took “the best” form previous initiatives (the XML courseware description system from IMS and the API based information interchange system from AICC) and joined and improved them in their own standard: SCORM, Shareable Content Object Reference Model .
Right now it’s in version 1.1 and it’s commonly accepted as a fact its version 2.0 will become the most widely accepted standard.
http://www.adlnet.org
Conclusion
Right now the most widely accepted standard is AICC’s AGR010 guide. So when thinking about investments on courseware and Learning Management Systems do it in a “AICC compliant” one or a “AICC Certified” one.
There’s a convergence of all standards to the ADL SCORM 2.0 model, so when looking for a Learning Management System ask your provider if they are implementing or have yet implemented SCORM.
eLearning standards are in continuous evolution, reaching new areas. The objective is achieve interchange systems for all kind of information involved in to the eLearning process: user data, assessment data, economic data, etc.
Future versions will offer improved interoperability between eLearning software and with other kinds of software as ERP, HR, Knowledge Management Systems, Content Management Systems, etc.
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