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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. . Standards provide several benefits. The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough. In it, Sony came out with a better standard, but kept it to themselves.

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An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI

eLearningMind

To enable you to take full advantage of learning technology, this Ultimate Guide to xAPI provides you with everything you need to know. We’ve already provided you with a high-level introduction to xAPI. xAPI lays out specifications that provide the standards for L&D professionals to follow. What is xAPI (Tin Can API)?

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Taking cmi5 adoption further by developing a Conformance Test Suite

Rustici Software

For the last 18 years, some of the most important work we’ve done at Rustici Software has been the standards-based efforts we’ve worked on with the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL). Lastly, we’re hiring several positions to help support the project, so if you want to be part of our efforts check out our open positions.

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

eLearning 24-7

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 xAPI originated around 2013 from a working group sponsored by ADL and led by Rustici. In the late 80s, AICC, the predecessor to SCORM, was born. vs SCORM 2004 as it was newer.

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Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning

eFront

eFront News from the e-learning frontier 10/17/2010 Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning As an e-Learning consultant I always was fun of open source software. In this post I am not going to talk about open source learning management systems such as eFront [1] but rather dedicated open source "authoring tools".

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What happened in 2023 and what’s next for eLearning standards

Rustici Software

The Rustici Software team regularly contributes to the evolution of the standards through involvement with the IEEE, ADL and 1EdTech eLearning standards groups. is the first open source specification to become an IEEE standard, which puts it in the same category as other common standards like Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11). In fact xAPI 2.0

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An explanation of cmi5 in (mostly) plain English

Rustici Software

Back in the day, SCORM was developed to provide specific guidance for plug and play interoperability of eLearning content across LMSs. Behold: cmi5, which provides a way to move from SCORM to the more modern xAPI specification. When you want the advanced tracking capabilities that xAPI provides. Source: ADL cmi5 Specification.