Academic ADL Co-Lab Partnership Conference Call

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Academic ADL Co-LabPartnership Conference Call

• Monday, August 28, 2000100 PM CDT

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Welcome

• Academic ADL Co-Lab Leadership Team
• University of Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Technical College System
• Higher Ed Partners
• Pending Partners
• eArmyU Team
• Other Co-Labs

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Academic ADL Co-Lab Partnerships

• Penn State
• University of California Irvine
• University of Washington
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• United States Open University
• Mississippi State University
• University of Nebraska Lincoln
• Carnegie Mellon University

• University of California Berkeley
• North Harris Montgomery Community College
  District
• University of Maryland University College
• Central Texas College
• Iowa State University

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Agenda

• ADL Overview
• Co-Lab
• Status
• Plans
• Opportunities
• Discussion

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The ADL Vision
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ADL Strategy

• Exploit existing network-based technologies
• Create platform-neutral, reusable courseware and
  content to lower costs
• Promote widespread collaboration to satisfy
  common needs
• Enhance performance with emerging and
  next-generation learning technologies
• Develop common specifications and standards that
  drives COTS product cycle
• Provide incentives for organizational and
  cultural change

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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
• 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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ADL Co-Lab Goals

• 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

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Expanded ADL Co-Labs
Academic ADL Co-Lab Higher Ed Focus with
Partners Accredited degrees, certification
ADL Co-Lab Hub Policies, Tools, and
Standards DoD-Federal Integration ADL Portal and
Clearinghouse
JOINT ADL Co-Lab Military Services Training
Systems Acquisition Community - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - Incentive Funds
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Plugfests

• Really a wonderful thing so simple
• Opportunity to personalize content to learner
• Potential to increase level of competition to
  provide quality content
• Very positive experience
• Elegant system for interoperability
• SCORM document is tremendous
• SCORM is going to make it a lot easier for us to
  distribute our content.

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Academic ADL Co-Lab

• Research and development of advanced learning
  technologies
• Assess ADL compliant tools
• Conformance testing for learning objects
• Research and evaluation of intelligent tutors
• Application and evaluation of assessment tools
• Learning Management System evaluation

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http//wiadlcolab.org

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Academic Co-Lab Status

• Plugfest 2
• Funding
• Staffing
• Labor project
• LMS (DAU)
• ADL / ET
• Weekly newshttp//wiadlcolab.org/news

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http//www.trainingsystems.org/events/adlc0900/adl
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Plans

• SCORM
• Content Learning Objects
• Repository
• LMS
• Research
• Assessment

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Opportunities

• SCORM
• Best practices
• Access
• eArmyU

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eArmyU

• Integrator
• Aggregator
• SOC
• Exclusive vs. non-exclusive

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http//www.soc.aascu.org/

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eArmyU Discussion

• Claudine - UMUC Interest, but with a team - by
  end of week or early next week
• How work together?
• Assuming that the integrator/aggregator - hope
  for a role for Co-Lab
• Other option is to work with a single
  integrator/aggregator
• Mary Beth Berkeley - Sloan Foundation looking at
  downstream discussions
• Chris RIT - contact with similar list - Global
  University Alliance (GUA) - 9 universities - need
  competencies for modular levels

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Poll What is your primary area of interest?

• 1 2
• Standards (IMS / SCORM) 2 1
• Learning Objects 1 3
• Repositories 4 0
• LMS 1 1
• Best Practices 0 0
• Content 2 1
• Research and Assessment 1 2

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General Discussion

• Dan - CMU - Educating the rest of the community
  or what this is and what it isn't - Off base
  descriptions
• Administrative understanding
• Content repositories - running LMS for 5 years
  now - significant resistant from faculty to
  commit to rules based system since it requires
  preparing ahead of time
• Hal - UWSA - modular content - what is the hurdle
  to Dan's concerns
• Chris - building knowledge base - have to do
  business in a different way - different
• Looking forward to figuring out together
• Claudine - request from faculty to share modular
  content - people want to learn from what others
  have done - discipline focused
• Mike - concern about how we identify the meta
  levels - technical vs. non-technical - Need to
  figure out how we are to relate and create
  sub-discussion groups

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Poll How often would you like to meet?

• Monthly 5
• Bi-monthly 4
• Quarterly 2
• As needed 1
• Don't know 0

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Wrap

• Tool bash session possible in late October in
  Alexandria Co-Lab (week Oct. 23?)
• Technical meeting of IMS TWG in September
• Very little academic participation - being driven
  by vendors
• Call for academic involvement
• We will let partners know of developments

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Contacts

• Ed Meachen emeachen_at_uwsa.edu
• Judy Brown jbrown_at_uwsa.edu
• Mike Offerman offerman_at_learn.uwsa.edu
• http//www.wiadlcolab.org
• http//www.adlnet.org

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ADL Co-Lab Functions

• Cooperate with industry and academia to develop
  common guidelines for ADL
• Perform technical evaluations of ADL tools and
  prototypes
• Perform content and training effectiveness
  evaluations of ADL tools and prototypes
• Facilitate collaborative partnerships and
  resource sharing among all stakeholders

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ADL Co-Lab Functions

• Collect, coordinate, and disseminate data and
  lessons learned
• Conduct tutorials and demonstrations of ADL
  applications and technologies
• Support and advise federal, state, and local
  agencies on development and implementation of
  ADL.

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