This document discusses how SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) can be used for games and simulations. It provides examples of how SCORM data can be captured for different learning activities like completing courses, teaching courses, attending events, participating in simulations, and more. It also outlines some limitations of the current SCORM standard and introduces new specifications like Tin Can and ADL Flex that aim to address these limitations and expand what can be tracked for learning activities.
7. To The Rescue
• ADL
– FLEX
– Project Tin Can
• AICC
– CMI 5
– PENS
• LETSI
– RTWS
– CaaS
• IMS
– Common Cartridge
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– LTI
23. Mike taught
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
Crew #8 attended
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
Johnny participated in
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
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Ben authored
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
25. I Watched “Kahn Academy, Pattern of US
Cold War Interventions”
I Read “The Cold War: A Military History”, by
Ambrose, Carr, Fleming et al
I Passed “The End of the Cold
War”, University of Georgia - History 4091
I Simulated The Cuban Missile Crisis as
Robert McNamara
I Played Negotiation in Motion
cc image from Joe Lencioni on flickr I Experienced Berlin Wall in Second Life
I Was Mentored By Stephen Ambrose
I Blogged “My Childhood and the Cold War”
26.
27. Team 2 wrote “Impacts of the Cold War
on Explosive Technology”
Mike edited “Impacts of the Cold War on
Explosive Technology”
Professor Smith graded “Impacts of the
Cold War on Explosive Technology”
Professor Smith gave Mike an A on
“Impacts of the Cold War on Explosive
Technology”
Professor Smith gave Team 2 a B on
“Impacts of the Cold War on Explosive
Technology”
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• Out of Browser Experiences
• Offline and Occasionally Connected
• Cross Domain
• Alternate devices and formats
(mobile)
• Security
• Decoupled data models
30. I Did This
Noun Verb Object
Somebody In Context Well /
I Did This On June 17
says that Of ____ Poorly
Asserted
Noun Verb Object Target With Result Timestamp
By
34. Mike Rustici
mike@scorm.com * @mike_rustici
Project Tin Can
http://www.scorm.com/tincan * @projecttincan
ADL Flex
https://sites.google.com/a/adlnet.gov/future-learning-experience-
project/home * @lrnEXP
LETSI RTWS
http://www.letsi.org * @letsi
AICC CMI 5
http://aicc.org
Notas do Editor
This isn’t SCORM 101This isn’t how to implement SCORMThis is about the future of SCORMShould we change it?
SCORM has been great for online trainingThe friction it has removed has enabled literally thousands of companies to work togetherWorld wide adoptionDe Facto industry standard, that only happens because it works well for the problem it solves
-There are many things it does well, but namely the web-based page turner-It does what it was intended to do….the things that were commonplace ten years agoE-learning today: page turnersOften not much more engaging than plain textNot necessarily a standards problem, but they don’t help either
---web browser dependency---javascript---temporal session---single user---no concept of instructor / facilitator---constant internet connection presence---data model must be shoe-horned---attempt-centric nature doesn't lend itself to playing until you improve---assets must be delivered to and installed on LMS---any tracking implies results submission---general incompatibilities
----who the players are----they are communicating and working together (mostly)----each solving a different piece of the puzzle----we feel your pain, solutions are addressing the roadblocks
Create a learning experience APIThree phasesWrapped up formal outreach, presenting preliminary conclusions and design for feedback now
Keep It SimpleGive Me PowerHow can we make everybody happy?
Simplicity and Power are inherently at odds with one another, how to overcome?Core Design Tenants---simplest case, get somebody up and running 8-8, 8 pages and less than 8 hours---enable complexity for those who want it, but hide it from those who don't need it---put burden of complexity on those most able to handle it and those who need it---remove constraints of traditional SCORM---backwards compatibility where it makes sense
Simple English sentence captures the essence of a learning experienceEnglish is a great example of simple by powerful and extensible
The essence of all this mess it at it’s core I Did This
API structured as a simple expression of Noun Verb ObjectProposed TCAPI is a technical binding to this simple conceptConceptually, each of these words is an extensible bucket of different concepts to expressWill come back to the tech stuff if you want, but first let’s look at what this structure can express
Hey, I'm reporting my own dataUseful at times, although in this example, we might not want to take Mike’s word for it
Wait, there's more than on person in Crew #8
watch one, do one, teach one – learning is about doing different things
this means Mike actually did what he was trained to do, ties performance data back to learning
Hark, a simulation
Learning happens outside the computer
Two things to notice that are implicit in those statements that represent very different assumptions from today’s model:On the Fly Creation – LRS can receive records for people and experiences it didn’t previously know about“This” is not tied to the actual content, but rather a pointer to the content. The thing reporting the result doesn’t have to be the actual thing delivering the experience.Think about how this relates to simulations and scenarios
Let’s mix them all up now and see what’s possible
There are many aspects of a learning experience, let's take this session, many lenses
Let’s start with our last example, me teaching this session
Learning isn't always structured, it happens everywhere
*this* described by URL, it’s just a YouTube videoStarting to form a transcript of my recorded learning experiences
It’s not all about me
What sentences are missing? – Let us know
Other things to noticed that result from the technical architecture we are considering
What we’re ironing out now.Complexity #1: sentences aren’t always quite this simple. Did you noticed I cheated on some of them?How do we express all of the bottom boxes without introducing unnecessary complexity?How do we express sub-sentences and related details?
Trying to take advantage of a strong association with concepts from Activity Streams
I Learned This BookmarkletRead This Kindle ButtonFourSquare check in for learning activitiesRecord a feed of learning activity, class blog, class discussion thread, facebook account, calendar - activity streams connection...track the feed identify expertsResults feed as a feedback loop for content authorsWhat else?