Attending

Jill Abbott
Avron Barr
John Campbell
Neil Cramer
Shane Gallagher
Fanny Klett
Frank Polster
Tyde Richards
Robby Robson
Schawn Thropp
Tom Wason
James Xu

Approvals

Agenda Approved
Minutes Previous Meeting Approved

General LETSI News

Tyde gave an update on the AICC meeting in Hamburg the previous week.

There were several presentations on integrating simulation with SCORM and two seemed appropriate for the white paper solicitation: a SCO-based approach demonstrated by John Alonzo from Outstart and an approach that integrated SCORM-based training into an multi-actor virtual world via avatars. The latter was the result of an ADL prototype project and used the Olive game engine. A brief discussion of the simulation topic followed in the telcon with Frank indicating familiarity with these and other approaches taken.

At the AICC meeting Shota Aki from Skillsoft expressed interest in submitting a SCORM 2.0 white paper on the content specification already made available to the WG and wondering about the proper creative commons license to use. This is likely to be an issue for other specification-based contributions and one the program committee should assist with.

At the AICC meeting Jack Hyde announced the intention to develop an XML course structure format based on the course structure format used in SCORM 1.1 (which itself was based on the table-based format in the AICC CMI specification).

At the AICC meeting Wayne Gafford gave a presentation on integrating SCORM with S1000D to support the general needs of communities of practice needing to support large, complex devices (DoD, Commercial Aviation, Automotive). The presentation was well received and later at the meeting this integration was given the working name "performance SCORM".

Planning for SCORM 2.0 Workshop

The distribution of the program committee "job descriptions" planned for last week was delayed to travel. Avron prepared a draft for Tyde to review. There are three roles: the overall Program Committee chair, Area Chairs, and general Program Committee members.

The Area Chairs are expected to encouraging wiki discussion of papers and synthesizing papers. The general Program Committee members will devote less time and, at present, are primarily expected to review papers.

There was discussion of the appropriate list of topic areas. The starting point was the set of topics included in the white paper solicitation. Part of the WG favored consolidating this list into a smaller set and part favored going with the original list. Finally the decision was made to go with the original list and adapt as needed according to volunteers and received papers.

The WG agreed that the solicitation for Program Committee volunteers should initially go to the WG members. If additional expertise is required specific individuals can be invited as needed.

Tyde agreed to distribute a Program Committee volunteer solicitation to the WG reflector after the meeting.

Note

The meeting was cut short due to technical difficulties with the Skype-based conferencing system.

Next meeting

Tuesday, July 8, 13:00 UTC