AICC

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AICC IEEECMI Meeting

• Sedona AZ
• 2000 Sep 25

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Agenda

• Approve agenda
• Current status
• AICC CMI document 3.0.3
• IEEE CMI document 3.4
• New CMI document editor
• Chairmanship
• CMI directions
• Next meeting

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Current Status AICC doc 3.0.3

• Hopefully the last version
• Contains SCORM revisions
• Contains clarifications and amplifications
• These are described in handouts (and revision
  record on the document)
• eMail vote

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IEEE Document 3.4

• Was uploaded to IEEE web site about 4 weeks ago,
  but unheralded not complete.
• Adds Chapter 14.
• Incorporates all SCORM
• Incorporates all AICC 3.0.3 updates
• Missing 15 and 16.
• Feedback from Greg Kohn of IEEE

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New Editor

• Scott Lewis (Austin, TX)
• slewis_at_oldworldaviaries.com
• Focus on adding 15 16
• Final polishing

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Chairmanship

• My chairmanship of the IEEE CMI subcommittee
  expires in Mar 2001 (New York meeting)
• I will not seek re-election
• Hopefully I will be able to continue to
  participate in the subcommittee --- not a sure
  thing

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IEEE Direction from Here
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1

• Slash and burn most of current version
• Result Level 1 and a few options.
• Go to ballot

• Complete Chapters 15 API and 16 XML
• Go to ballot

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End

• Thank you
• Sedona, AZ

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SCORM Meeting Decisions

• ADL Plugfest Meeting in June
• Day and a half to discuss CMI Data Model
• Familiar names
• Dan Rehak, Tyde Richards, Mike Fore, Claude
  Ostyn, Bill McDonald, etc.
• Familiar with the product, so I felt comfortable
  with their decisions.
• The changes

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SCORM Changes

• Please refer to handout.
• Sec 5.1.1 Lesson Location first entry cannot
  be 0.
• Minor changes
• Null gt empty string
• Lesson gt AU
• Attempt gt session
• code in example changed

• LMSFinish() shall return true/false
• Added error code 102
• Amplifed introduction
• Amplified total_time
• Corrected session_time
• Amplified description of Table B.6
• CMIString256 gt CMIString255

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IEEE Document Organization
Chapter 11 - 16 Implementations
Chapter 1 - 10 Semantics
11. File-based communication 12. File-based
course interchange 13. Lesson evaluation
files 14. HTTP communication 15. API
communication 16. XML course interchange
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IEEE Editor Feedback on 3.4

• Please change the running header to reflect that
  this a draft 3.4. Please also change the date
  accordingly. -- Done
• In Clause 2, Definitions, do you have permission
  to use definitions?
• I noticed that the verb must was used rather
  often in this document.
• I was a bit surprised to see that there were no
  references or bibliographic citations.

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Approach 1 Complete Current Plan

• Scott will compete addition of 15 and 16, plus
  polishing in Mid November
• Post for discussion in Greece
• Request balloting group in Greece
• If necessary form 2 day large IEEE/AICC CMI
  working session in Jan (extension of AICC agenda)
• Draft ready in Feb for review
• Approve for balloting Mar in New York

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An LMS Architecture
X
Launching content
LMS
Structure of some content
X
LMS communication with content
Content communication with LMS
X
Content
Some Student information
X
Sequencing rules information
X
Content
Some Content metadata
X
Some Student Performance information
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Start Small

• Develop an architecture that shows how the pieces
  fit together.
• Keep breaking the pieces into smaller parts -- to
  the smallest useful component for standardization
• Build a series of standards -- some might be
  nested
• Keep updating the architecture to show how they
  fit together

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Approach 2

• Small team of slashers in October (2nd wk?)
• Finish lean and mean standard Nov. (1st week?)
• Discuss in Greece.
• Request balloting group in Greece
• Have large group 2 day meeting if necessary in
  Jan (AICC extension)
• Draft ready in Feb for review
• Approve for balloting Mar in New York