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

eLearning 24-7

SCORM’s premise, not what it can or cannot do, was its huge premise of interoperability—far more so than AICC. In the late 80s, AICC, the predecessor to SCORM, was born. 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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eLearning Standards—What They Are and Why They Matter

Trivantis

It all started with the Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC), which was formed in 1988. The major aircraft manufacturers of the time, Boeing, Airbus, and McDonnell Douglas, got together and formed the AICC to come up with a standard way for courses to communicate results to an LMS.

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Tin Can API, the evolution of SCORM

Paradiso

Originally developed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), an initiative of the Unite States Department of Defense, SCORM was designed to standardize and modernize their training courses. With Tin Can API data can be stored locally and then relayed back to the LRS when connected, further enhancing mobile, or M-Learning, trackability.

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 2 (M-Z)

LearnUpon

SaaS (software as a service): Software hosted in the cloud by an LMS vendor so that customers don’t need to install the system locally. SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model): A set of standards developed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) and applied when developing LMS content.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning). The first official eLearning content standard, AICC was developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee in 1993 as a CD-ROM based standard. eLearning standards like SCORM, xAPI (Tin Can) and AICC were developed to enhance the interoperability of online learning content and technologies.