CONOPS Elements

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Air Education and Training Command
Sustaining the Combat Capability of Americas Air
Force
The Perfect SCORM
Gary Twogood 8 March 2005
I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l
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Overview

• Air Education and Training Command
• What is SCORM?
• Whats in it for me?
• Examples of SCORM use
• Useful links

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A Little About AETC

• Air Force has 350,000 population
• AETC mission is to recruit and train everyone
• Continuous training huge mission
• Basic Training
• Technical Training
• Supplemental Training
• Professional Military Education
• 70 online courses

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What Is This Thing Called SCORM
Shareable Content Object Reference Model
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What are Content Objects?
Consider a training plan or syllabus
Equal to a recipe
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Content Object Assembly
Assembled Objects become modules
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Course Development
Assembled modules become courses
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Reference Model
SCORM Version 1.2 established standards
Uses manifest to present SCOs
Linear presentation
Branching embedded in each object
Downstream objects couldnt respond without
custom programming
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Whats In It For Me?
Portability
Interoperability
Reusability
Durability
Affordability
Accountability
Resulting in more productivity and lower costs
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How Do I Go About This?
Dump the classroom model
Presentation modular/molecular
Content - Think small commercials
Reuse Think globally where else could this be
used?
Context free content stand alone
Browser enabled allows multiple delivery
methods LAN in classroom CD-ROM
Internet
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I thought Small Now What?

• Objects stored in repository
• Metadata tags allow retrieval
• Goal is centralized card catalog
• Decentralized storage
• Can be reused as is or adapted
• If modified, becomes new object with unique
  metada identifiers

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Impact on Development Tools

• HTML is becoming the defacto standard
• Traditional development tools being used less
• Now provide HTML output
• Typically require plug in to operate on Internet
• Becoming more Internet friendly
• Video used less
• Bandwidth challenges
• Cheap to make but often not instructionally sound
  (talking head usually has no instructional value
• Wrapped in compression tools (Flash)
• Animations more popular

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Examples

• Integrated Maintenance Data System Course
• Customer initially wanted one course
• Became three courses
• 65 commonality
• After first course, second and third courses were
  nearly complete
• Action Officer on-line Job Aids
• 2 1/2 hour classroom course
• Most dont retain information
• Modules with definitions, templates, examples,
  and best practices
• Each is stand alone
• Transitions and evaluations can create on-line
  course

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Bibliography

• http//projects.aadlcolab.org/scourse/latestgreate
  st/viewer.htm SCORM course from University of
  Wisconsin (Academic co-lab)
• http//www.adlnet.org/ check each week
• http//www.lsal.cmu.edu/ especially the best
  practices handbook
• http//webservices.hq.af.mil/508/
• http//www.navylearning.navy.mil/
• http//www.reusability.org/read/

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Bibliography, cont.

• http//www.nwlink.com/donclark/hrd/sat.html
• javale_at_wm.edu
• http//www.indiana.edu/idtheory/home.html
• http//www.spjc.edu/eagle/research/beep/
• http//www.distance-educator.com/

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Contact Info

• Gary.twogood_at_randolph.af.mil
• Telephone [phone]

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Sustaining the Combat Capability of Americas Air
Force
I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l
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• https//golearn2.csd.disa.mil