The Academic ADL CoLab

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The Academic ADL Co-Lab

• Judy Brown, Director
• November 2003

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The ADL Vision
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What are the Problems?

• Cant move content from one system to another
• Tracking progress is proprietary
• Cant locate content

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How to Solve?

• Industry standards
• Buy in
• SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model

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ADL Functional Requirements

• Accessibility access instructional components
  from one remote location and deliver them to many
  other locations
• Interoperability use instructional components
  developed in one location, with one set of tools
  or platform, in another location, with a
  different set of tools or platform
• Adaptability tailor instruction to individual
  and situational needs
• Reusability incorporate instructional components
  into multiple applications
• Durability operate instructional components when
  base technology changes, without redesign or
  recoding
• Affordability increase learning effectiveness
  significantly while reducing time and costs

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Government Organizations working with ADL

• Employment and Training Administration (ETA-DoL)
• Office of Policy (DoL)
• Mine Safety Health Agency (MSHA-DoL)
• National Guard Bureau (NGB)
• Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• United States Postal Service (USPS)
• National Aeronautic Space Agency (NASA)
• Department of Agriculture, Graduate School
• Department of Justice (DoJ)
• Department of Education (DoEd)
• Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management
• Department of Treasury, Office of the Comptroller
  Currency
• Veterans Administration (VA)

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Standards Evolution Model
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Five Year Progress Report
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Enterprise Exemplars
courses/objects cataloged, tagged and
searchable
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How the SCORM Fits
Instructional Capability, Modeling
Simulation, Intelligent Tutoring, Economic
Models, Policy, RD, etc.
Technical Specification
SCORM is necessary, but not sufficient ...
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ADL Co-Laboratories

• An open collaborative environment for sharing
  learning technology research, development, and
  assessments. The Co-Lab goals are to
• Develop and refine the SCORM
• Assess ADL tools and prototypes
• Facilitate collaborative resource sharing
• Collect and disseminate data and lessons learned
• Conduct tutorials and demonstrations
• Support and advise federal, state, and local
  agencies, and private-sector partners

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ADL Co-Labs and Partnership Lab
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What Is the Academic ADL Co-Lab?

• Focal point for the nations universities and
  colleges in promoting high quality, reusable
  content for distributed learning
• Established to promote collaboration in the
  research, development, demonstration,
  implementation, and evaluation of ADL
  technologies and products
• Serves as an academic partner and ADL link to
  test, evaluate, and demonstrate ADL-compliant
  tools and technologies to enhance teaching and
  learning
• Serves as an academic demonstration site for ADL
  tools and content, including those developed by
  the federal government, academia, and industry

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Partnerships with Consortia/Systems

• University of Wisconsin System
• Wisconsin Technical College System
• Advanced Networking with Minority Serving
  Institutions (AN-MSI)
• California Virtual Campus
• Florida Community College Distance Learning
  Consortium
• Minnesota State Colleges Universities

• Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
  Consortium for Higher Education (NETCHE)
• New Media Centers (NMC)
• Southern Regional Education Board
• The Texas AM University System
• Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH)
  Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies

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Partnerships with Individual Institutions

• Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed
  Learning
• Atlantic Cape Community College
• Bloomsburg University (Institute for Interactive
  Technologies)
• Cameron University
• Capella University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Central Texas College
• Defense Acquisition University
• Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Foothill College
• Indiana University, Bloomington
• Macquarie University - Australia
• Medical Center Campus, Miami-Dade Community
  College
• Mississippi State University
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Northern State University
• Old Dominion University

• The Pennsylvania State University
• Purdue University
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Rutgers University
• Saint Francis University
• Saint Joseph's University
• University of Alaska
• University of California - Berkeley Extension
• University of California - Irvine
• University of Hawaii (at Manoa)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Maryland University College
• University of Mounted Warfare
• University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• University of New Orleans
• University of Washington
• University of Wollongong (Australia)
• West Virginia University

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Academic ADL Co-Lab

• Content
• SCOurse
• Pilots / prototypes
• Instructional issues
• Tools for creation
• Repositories
• Automated assembly
• Alternative devices
• Certification

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Current Initiatives

• Constructing SCOs for teaching online
• DAU
• FIPSE grant
• NSF grant
• SCOurse
• Repositories
• Pedagogy investigation
• Certification

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DoD Initiatives

• Next generation content
• NATO
• Lab safety modules
• Medical modules
• Gaming/simulation/3D in pilot/prototypes
• Handheld and tablet devices
• Repositories for learning objects
• Automatic assembly
• National strategic summit on repositories
• Advanced Distributed Learning Symposium
• Cooperative development initiative

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SCOurse

• Background
• ADL Overview
• Basic SCORM Concepts
• Specifications, Standards and SCORM
• Standards Evolution
• ADLs High-level Requirements
• The Components of the SCORM
• The SCORM Runtime Environment
• Functions of the SCORM RTE

• The SCORM Content Aggregation Model
• Content Aggregation Model Overview
• Introduction to the SCORM Content Model
• What is Meta-data?
• Introduction to Meta-data
• Introduction to the Meta-data Information Model
• Introduction to SCORM Content Structure
• Introduction to SCORM Content Packaging

http//www.academiccolab.org/learn
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www.academiccolab.org
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Resources

• www.academiccolab.org
• www.adlnet.org
• www.jointadlcolab.org/guidelines
• www.academiccolab.org/Resources
• www.academiccolab.org/projects/repositories.html
• www.academiccolab.org/learn
• www.scodays.org

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Modular Content Hierarchy
Source Academic ADL Co-Lab (adapted from
Autodesk)
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