Distributed eLearning Technology in Your LMS and How It’s About to Change Forever

Current eLearning standards like SCORM, AICC, and IMS are increasingly becoming impediments to introduction of new training technologies rather than their enablers as they once were. Their basic assumptions are dated and their lack of flexibility is frequently a problem which needs to be overcome. Presumption of a single learner, that all content and student data is local on the LAN, and that the LMS hosts all learning sessions stand in the way of implementing more recent advents of social, mobile and other forms of learning for individuals as well as groups. Management applications relaying on the existing standards are hampered from easily linking to new offerings like:
•       content as a service -- web-hosted learning activities
•       multiplayer rehearsal games and simulations
•       mobile learning and augmented reality
•       immersive activities where the instructor observes or participates
•       real-time monitoring of students and teams
•       intelligent tutoring systems that develop significant data about learner's state of knowledge and misunderstandings
•       social learning
•       semantic web
Newly emerging trends and how people use computers and the Web in particular will change how people learn tomorrow. New generation of technologies is needed to facilitate and enable those new eLearning trends. Fortunately there are new and exciting developments afoot in that area. New upcoming specification from ADL and AICC as well as work at LETSI and IEEE aim to break the barriers and impediments which have increasingly become thorns in the sides of content implementers, vendors as well as organizations trying to roll out eLearning technology.

Relatively sudden emergence of such on-line services as Facebook and YouTube and massively successful adoption of mobile devices as indispensable personal gadgets are some of the drivers behind demand for change in how people prefer to experience eLearning. Mobile and Social Computing paradigms are quickly becoming dominating trends and eLearning in the near future will embrace rather than grudgingly acknowledge the way most people choose to interact on-line. In this session you will learn about the challenges often faced by eLearning technology implementers. Have a quick overview of the technologies and standards used to build eLearning solutions today and what are the trends and newly emerging technologies and specifications from organizations such as ADL, AICC, IEEE, IMS and LETS most likely to drive eLearning tomorrow.

Any HR professional interested in eLearning technologies, past present and future.

You will learn about the challenges often faced by eLearning technology implementers. You will learn about the technologies and standards driving eLearning today. You will learn about the trends and new technologies likely to drive eLearning tomorrow?

ADL – Advanced Distributed Learning URL: http://www.adlnet.org/ AICC – Aviation Industry CBT Committee URL: http://www.aicc.org/joomla/dev/ LETSI – Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability URL: http://www.letsi.org/ IEEE/LTSC WG11 URL: http://www.ieeeltsc.org:8080/Plone IMS URL: http://www.imsglobal.org/

		Chris Sawwa Meridian Knowledge Solutions Inc View Profile