Activities

ADL Technical Team

In conjunction with leading the collaborative development of the SCORM, the ADL Technology Center develops the SCORM Conformance Test Suite to provide organizations with the ability to perform self-testing on learning management systems (LMSs), Sharable Content Objects (SCOs) and Content Packages to determine the extent of their conformance to the specifications and standards.

Further, the ADL Technical Team at the ADL Technology Center continually develops and maintains prototypes and example implementations of SCORM concepts to aid early adopters and support the integration of SCORM into commercial products. Most notably the Sample Run-Time Environment (RTE) provides a working example of the SCORM’s RTE, Content Packaging, and Sequencing and Navigation concepts.

Like the ADL Co-Labs, the ADL Technology Center maintains a testbed environment to support its technical development activities and enable enhanced collaboration with the ADL Co-Lab Network. The ADL Technology Center testbed provides a comprehensive testing environment supporting the verification of software products such as the SCORM Conformance Test Suite and the Sample RTE.

Augmenting the technical staff at the ADL Co-Lab Hub, the ADL Technology Center often supports technical exchanges, workshops, working group meetings and other activities. Through the ADL Co-Lab Network, the ADL Technology Center testbed is linked with that of the ADL Co-Lab Hub and Joint ADL Co-Lab. The ADL Technical Team has on-demand access to the latest LMS systems, authoring tools, repositories and other systems maintained within the ADL testbed network.

The ADL Application Team is responsible for research and analysis of the SCORM specifications, design and development of SCORM conformant content examples, and documentation and dissemination of the lessons learned and best practices for implementing the SCORM.