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

eLearning 24-7

Paul is the SVP of Business Development at dominKnow, a world-class authoring tool that has AI built into it. 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 Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Paul Schneider, Ph.D.,

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Why the Experience API (xAPI) Is Crucial to Your eLearning Success

Trivantis

The ADL —or Advanced Distributed Learning—recognized the need for a set of standards to ensure that programmers write code that can play well with other eLearning software. Years later, when SCORM couldn’t do everything needed, the ADL asked Rustici Software to create an updated standard: The Experience API or xAPI. Serious games.

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Why SCORM 2004 failed & what that means for Tin Can

eFront

Sign #3: ADL itself heavily supports Tin Can as the successor of SCORM.[4]. SCORM 2004 had to change in order to adapt to such a dramatically different environment and rather than do that ADL decided to save itself the trouble and start from scratch through what we now know as Tin Can or Experience API (xAPI). On not being pragmatic.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

Department of Defense’s Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL), became the administrator of SCORM. As of the early 2000s, ADL supervises conformance requirements for SCORM learning content. . The evolution of the authoring tool. Another technology that is arguably the most important is the authoring tool.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

Department of Defense’s Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL), became the administrator of SCORM. As of the early 2000s, ADL supervises conformance requirements for SCORM learning content. . The evolution of the authoring tool. Another technology that is arguably the most important is the authoring tool.

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

LearnUpon

ROI (return on investment): A ratio of the profit accrued by an investment versus the cost of the investment. Training professionals are now often required to demonstrate the ROI of learning programs and software to leadership teams. SCORM defines how online learning content speaks to, and tracks results back to, an LMS.

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What is SCORM? xAPI? TinCan? AICC? A review of the LMS acronyms

Ed App

Lessening Support from eLearning Developers and authoring tools. SCORM is short for ‘Sharable Content Object Reference Model’ and was first created by the US government’s Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) project in 2000 as a de-facto standard for eLearning content. . Authoring Tool Support. Limited Compliance. LMS Support.

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