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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

As Stephen Johnson tells us, in his book Where Good Ideas Come From , the openness of standards fosters innovation. . The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough. The ADL provided compliance testing, so that content and systems could be validated for interoperability.

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A SCORM-Certified LMS Helps Companies Score

TOPYX LMS

Too many LMS users, even administrators, have no idea what SCORM (the Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is or what makes it important. It was during that year when President Clinton signed an executive order that led to the creation of Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), the initiative that SCORM comes under. What Is SCORM?

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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

eLearning 24-7

The idea was that you have content in SCORM and add it to your learning system that accepts SCORM, and tada, it works without any problems or issues. Fast forward to the early 2000s, and a US government-sponsored group, the ADL Initiative, took the best of AICC, added some much-needed changes, and SCORM 1.0

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xAPI: Why Should I Care and What Could It Do for Me?

Meridian

In the training world, we were introduced to SCORM from an initiative that arose in 1999, led by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). xAPI, like SCORM before it, started from a DoD and ADL 2011 initiative. Two years later, the xAPI 1.0

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xAPI: Why Should I Care and What Could It Do for Me?

Meridian

In the training world, we were introduced to SCORM from an initiative that arose in 1999, led by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). xAPI, like SCORM before it, started from a DoD and ADL 2011 initiative. Two years later, the xAPI 1.0

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What’s the best SCORM compliant LMS to choose in 2020?

Elucidat

The elearning then ‘talks’ to the LMS, telling it things like who has completed which module, and what their score was. If it’s not certified by ADL, which SCORM API elements are supported? ADL is the governing body for SCORM. For an LMS to be SCORM-certified, it needs to have passed ADL’s testing process.

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Difference between SCORM and AICC; benefits

Wizcabin

However, in case you have little or no idea about the two terms, you might have to stop worrying too much about it. And in a way to address them, the SCORM model was created as part of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative. First, there’s a limit to what you can track with the learning technology standard.

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