Attending

Jill Abbott
Avron Barr
John Campbell
Neil Cramer
Danny Fowler
Don Holmes
Frank Polster
Tyde Richards (convener)
Valerie Smothers
Schawn Thropp

Approvals

Agenda approved
No minutes previous meeting (face-to-face Orlando Learning 2007)

Discussion

The WG discussed relevant developments at meetings in October, in particular the ADL TWG meeting and the LETSI face-to-face meeting at Learning 2007. Also mentioned were the ADL RUG meeting and the OASIS DITA Learning Specialization WG meeting.

The ADL TWG addressed the need to finalize a version of SCORM 2004 that reflects the ADL/IMS agreement for the IMS IP referenced in SCORM. In particular this will entail collaboration in IMS on synchronizing the IMS Simple Sequencing specification with the ADL modifications to that specification. These actions will stabilize and protect the current SCORM 2004 user community but will not directly impact the version of SCORM that ADL transitions to LETSI.

ADL announced its intention to work on "SCORM 2.0" through a LETSI-driven process. SCORM 2.0 is a future version of SCORM that will be based on the future "Core SCORM", a SCORM version based 100% on de jure standards. SCORM 2.0 will go beyond Core SCORM by providing additional capabilities that are of general interest across communities of practice such as the AICC, MedBiquitous and SIFA.

In the ADL TWG there was proposal to form 2 new LETSI WGs, one focused on gathering learning-centered requirements and one centered on providing a business rationale for any new SCORM capabilities. Jackie Haynes from IAI volunteered to convene the first of these.

There was discussion in the LETSI Tech WG on the need for the proposed requirements gathering WG to be open and not restricted to a few community of practice organizations. There was also discussion of the need to define a an effective means to gather requirements.

From the LETSI Tech WG perspective, the LETSI meetings at Learning 2007 mainly communicated to a broader audience the ideas about Core SCORM and SCORM 2.0. The new work relevant to LETSI occurred in the area of Charter & Governance.

The OASIS DITA Learning Specialization WG is at the point of finalizing an initial set of "DITA topics" to provide an XML representation of learning content. ADL is participating in this WG. The DITA "interactions" defined by this WG appear to complement the SCORM interactions. There is ADL interest in evaluating DITA as a possible content format for use in SCORM 2.0.

The LETSI Tech WG discussed a need to distinguish were SCORM currently is (SCORM 2004) from the roadmap of where SCORM may go in the future (Core SCORM and SCORM 2.0). There was an acknowledgement that the design focus of the current SCORM, going back to its AICC CMI origin, is self-paced CBT. There was discussion of whether or not SCORM is likely to address other types of learning as it evolved.

There was discussion of taking an architectural approach to SCORM, and defining the current or potential integration "touch points" for SCORM that could be used to define how it intersects with community of practice requirements.