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About the Joint ADL
Co-Lab
"So besides the one here in Alexandria, we have one in Orlando that’s implementing
ADL within
DoD specifically. So the military services, DoD
agencies, joint staff and others are all working through there and putting their
requirements in through the Orlando Lab. That way they can implement and decide
what’s working and what’s not through that environment. We also do our prototypes
through the Orlando Lab as well where we actually put prototype moneys some funding
out there. Those that are interested have to go through a government organization
through DoD then to obtain that funding."
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About the Academic
ADL Co-Lab
"In the academic world we have the lab in Madison, Wisconsin as the Academic Co-Lab.
Many academic institutions are like us moving into E-learning at some level.
Some are running, some are crawling; some are walking just like we are through government
and industry. So the Academic Lab helps to bring a focus on that community.
There are lots of technical schools, colleges, universities now collaborating through
that environment. Lots of issues on accreditation, instructional design, and other
issues of developing content that’s object based that all comes into our Academic
Lab."
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Academic ADL Co-Lab
Mission
"We have been an active member of the core ADL team, always keeping academic needs
and concerns on the table. Additionally, we have been instrumental in bringing together
government and corporate trainers with faculty and Instructional Designers to address
effective learning strategies."
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What the Academic
ADL Co-Lab Does
"The Academic Co-Lab works with all vendors addressing the education sector. By
insuring that content runs on multiple management systems, we are seeing both cost
reductions and increased sharing."
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Focus of the ADL
Academic Co-Lab
"The focus of the Academic Co-Lab is on education and academic institutions working
with both corporations and government agencies."
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Why the Academic ADL
Co-Lab?
"The Academic ADL Co-Lab concentrates on compelling learning overall and is currently
focusing on repositories, games and simulations, and mobile learning, always paying
attention to interoperability and reusability provided through the
SCORM."
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Who Partners with
the Academic ADL Co-Lab?
"Since we have not actively solicited partnerships, but our partners have come to
us. We are very pleased with high level of interest. Initially, the partnerships
were with higher education institutions that had contracts with the government or
the military that did require the use of the SCORM. But now, we have interest from
higher education and k12 institutions world wide."
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About the Workforce
ADL Co-Lab
"The other Co-Lab is in Memphis Tennessee at the University of Memphis, it’s called
the FedEx Technologies Institute is the facility. So we have the Workforce
Co-Lab and why we called it Workforce was we’re trying to meet the industry needs
out there. And what we’re seeing is the FedEx Technologies Institute to bringing
in the Fortune one thousand companies through their facility. As their coming
through we’re starting to find out that the last two years of implementation of
SCORM have lead to many large scale companies throughout industry using SCORM; McDonald’s,
Home Depot, Donald Chrysler, Verizon, so their coming through the FedEx Technologies
Institute and now their also learning about SCORM. And so this is a great
way to facilitate the industry perspective and the workforce requirements and we’re
hoping our sponsor Department of Labor dealing with Workforce issues as well as
others in Department of Commerce will help sponsor that lab as well as what we’re
currently doing."
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About the United Kingdom
ADL Partnership Lab
"The two Partnership Labs we have, one is in the UK. The UK Partnership Lab,
the reason we did that was there was a huge investment throughout the UK about twelve
billion over four years in investment into infrastructure, into networking, into
curriculum, into standards, into a National Health Science University that’s virtual
about one-two million students. So with that type of investment we wanted
to make sure that their curriculum, their content, their using the specifications
SCORM. Otherwise what would happen is it would make a huge investment and
we’d find out later that their stuff doesn’t work with ours. And this is the
case with cell phones, and other standards out there we’ve found in the past.
Same with electives we have different standards out there but there’s a way to have
interfaces and adaptors and that’s what we’re doing for E-learning."
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About the Canada ADL
Partnership Lab
"The latest one as far as the Partnership Lab is in Canada. The Canadian Partnership
Lab, we started this actually about at the beginning of SCORM, we actually took
a lot of the early work from SCORM working with the research Canada has done and
we’ve finally now formalized that into a Partnership Lab. They’ve done a lot
of research on aspects of SCORM that we currently don’t have in the current version
as far as dynamic ability to sequence content, the appearance of it, and other research
requirements that we’ve had on the table now, that we’re now trying to push into
the actual SCORM document. So the Canadians bring together a lot of benefits
as far as their research and testing that they’ve done that we can now add to our
capabilities."
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About the ADL Job Performance
Technology Center
"It will mean a lot to Web-based training, but the area we focus in that makes it
more important than training is on the job performance, and that is where the critical
element is going to be for it. What's the difference now between just-in-time training
and just-in-time job aiding. There really isn't anything different to it (with the)
exception for semantics. Now the critical element is making sure that we blend the
learning piece with the job performance so that they both complement each other
and in reality what we focus on is the performer getting their job done more efficiently
and effectively."
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About the ADL Technology
Center
"Besides the ADL Co-Lab here, we have a Technology Center in Johnstown (Pennsylvania)
that is the main support for the SCORM itself and a lot of the outreach we’re doing.
So we have a whole team up there that’s working on the actual code, the actual editing
of the SCORM document, the actual test suites that are developed, and the tools that
are hopefully going to facilitate the use of SCORM. As well as just the general
outreach to publication and website. So the Johnstown team is a critical component
to our lab here to providing the necessary manpower we need to be able to put out
a good product."
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About the Alexandria
Co-Lab
"Mission of the Co-Lab in Alexandria is a central hub with all out Co-Lab’s in where
you’re providing an overarching facility for leveraging technologies, research for
learning. We have a lot of distributed learning going on throughout
the worlds and what we’re finding out is by having an open facility to bring in
industry, academia, and the government we’re able to facilitate that into large
scale lessons learned benchmarking an overall providing facility for everyone to
share and leverage their research."
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How do I Contribute?
"The Co-Lab for the ADL initiative is sort of the central hub. So here in Alexandria
we are providing this central facility for actually implementing ADL. ADL
the initiative is a concept to provide the highest quality education and training
anywhere, anytime customized to individual needs of the learner. So in order
for that to happen there has to be somewhere to do it and that’s where the Co-Lab
comes into play. So we have a facility here that is has a space in it within
the lab itself for not only people to work on E-learning specifications for collaborations
but the other mostly part of the lab is collaborative space to bring together the
stakeholders, to bring together the ADL community together for facilitating workshops,
outreach, conferences, testing, doing our Plugfest events, and many things like
that."
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What is the Mission
of the ADL Co-Lab?
"Mission of the Co-Lab here in Alexandria is a central hub with all our Co-Lab’s
in where we’re providing an overarching facility for leveraging technology research
for learning. We have a lot of distributed learning going on throughout the
world and what we’re finding out is by having an open facility to bring in industry,
academia, and the government we’re able to facilitate that into large scale lessons
learned benchmarking an overall providing facility for everyone to share and leverage
their research."
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What is ADL's Strategy?
"The strategy is we spent about five to six years now on the technical side which
is fortunate and unfortunate. We had to do it to get the E-learning community
to become stabilized so unfortunately we had to spend six years five or six years
just on the technical components. So now what we’re trying to do is we’ve
seen the last year or two of moving from spec development now into implementation
and adoption. So our lab is structuring here to better support the adoption
now and implementation of SCORM as well as just other things besides SCORM.
E-learning is not just about SCORM only if you’re interested in providing
an adaptive environment of tracking students having an interruptible and reusable
environment then you should be using SCORM as the way to go. If you’re just
facilitating collaboration across E-learning then there’s other things in the lab
here we’re dong. So our strategy is besides adopting and implementation of
SCORM is to continue creating this environment for sharing what’s happening within
other organizations, industries, government, and academia. So if someone has a
better way of using collaborative tools, of using new research into a better adaptive
environment such as intellering tutoring systems, simulations, gaming these are
the areas we a now starting to move into. So six years ago we wanted to start
there, we had to spend the six years to get the framework in place. Now that
we’re doing so we’re now looking at the intelligent tutoring systems, gaming stimulation,
job performance is a big one. We have a job performance technologies center
here within the lab looking at PDA’s, mobile Devices, and how your going to be able
to learn on those as well as you would in the classroom."
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Who Should I Contact?
"Anyone interested in providing a distributed learning environment where they want
to move from the traditional page turning to more of an adaptive learning environment
and if anyone out there in E-learning is making the investments they ought to be
working with us, they can also see what other investments have been made.
We’re working again with industry, government, and academia, so what they are doing
is providing a best practice lessons learned environment so that if you’re at the
leading edge you can bring and share your research and your investment with others
that are just starting out."
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Why Join the ADL Co-Lab?
"As far as joining the ADL community it’s really up to anyone’s desire weather if
they just wanted to go out on there own and do it, but if they become part of the
community that way they can not only share what others have done but they can add
what they’ve done to the community as well. So a lot of times new tools, new
products come out where the lab doesn’t recommend or endorse them but in certain
cases they’re the only products out there. So early adaptors sort of get a
leg up by showing products that meet the requirements of what not just what DoD
has but other government agencies. So it’s kind of a benefit to just
be part of the community to share what you have and then be able to provide that
back out outreach to the community."
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