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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough. The ADL provided compliance testing, so that content and systems could be validated for interoperability. ADL decided to create a new standard, the Experience API (xAPI; originally known as Tin Can). And because of the 800 lb.

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 2 (M-Z)

LearnUpon

Mastery score: Defines the score a learner must achieve to pass a SCORM module. A mastery score isn’t compulsory as some SCORM modules don’t include a quiz and some quizzes don’t require a passing score. mLearning can occur anywhere at anytime.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning). Mastery Score. Defines the score a learner must achieve to pass a SCORM module. A mastery score isn’t compulsory, as some SCORM modules don’t include a quiz and some quizzes don’t require a passing score. Microlearning. SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model).

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Simple Anatomy of SCORM-based E-Learning

Integrated Learnings

On top of that, I found out about the ADL initiative and the Department of Defense involvement in the specification. The run-time code is used to send messages to the LMS like "the course was started", "the learner scored 80% on the quiz", and "the learner has mastered this material". Wait a minute. What are we talking about here?

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4 Reasons Tin Can API (xAPI) Is NOT Just a New Version of SCORM

Infopro Learning

SCORM reports Meta level data about track completion, time, pass/fail, and a single score. ADL provides an overview ( [link]. SCORM was designed to communicate only metadata about if the course was opened, if it was finished, and a single test score. tracking-analysis/experience-api/. )

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Q&A - eLearning Standards Especially SCORM

Tony Karrer

SCORM is a fairly easy standard to deal with especially since most people are fine with a single SCO that does only single score/completion reporting. There are a bunch of other standards by ADL (who is responsible for SCORM ), IMS , IEEE LTSC including CORDRAâ„¢ , LOM , Meta-data , etc. in the eLearning world.

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Test SCORM Courses with an LMS

Tony Karrer

And we run into the same tough situation each time: If there's an integration issue, like the score or completion is not getting set appropriately, we want to be able to make changes to the course to try to fix it. Rather, it simply allows us to quickly set particular variable values, e.g., test scores.

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