Activities

The ADL Co-Lab Hub serves as a clearinghouse across organizational boundaries to coordinate and lead the systematic development and refinement of the future learning environment. The ADL Co-Lab Hub is fulfilling this role by conducting the following activities:

• Leading the development of the SCORM specifications and associated guidelines, test software and tools through collaboration with government, academia, industry and international standards bodies

• Identifying and coordinating science and technology efforts that realize the ADL vision of adaptive learning, and integrating those efforts into SCORM

• Developing and assessing distributed repositories (such as Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration Architecture [CORDRA]) and associated tools and specifications that integrate ADL efforts into an architecture and framework that support the goals of the ADL Initiative

• Collecting, installing and demonstrating state-of-the-art learning content, technologies, instruction and decision support capabilities, including meta-analyses and evaluations

• Acting as a clearinghouse and source for data and information on the principles of design, development, implementation, evaluation, costs and effectiveness of all ADL applications

• Maintaining an ADL Outreach capability to educate and promote the use of ADL and SCORM, and developing and conducting ADL events such as Plugfests

• Developing ADL partnerships and fostering cooperation of partners and users by providing facilities and resources with an open, collegial, vendor-neutral environment

• Leading efforts, in coordination with the ADL Co-Lab Hub sponsors, for collaboration among all ADL Co-Labs, government agencies and national and international organizations that have direct stakeholder interest in the ADL

• Engaging ADL specification and technology adopters to work together and share information through the ADL Co-Lab Testbed, and providing technical support, testing and investigation of ADL technologies.