ADL to receive award at Enterprise Learning! Summit 2012

ADL will again receive a Learning! 100 award from Elearning! Media Group during the Enterprise Learning! Summit 2012. The Learning! 100 Awards recognize the top 100 organizations for their best-in-class learning and development programs. Dr. Tom Archibald, Director of Operations at the Alexandria Co-Lab, will attend the March 20th Awards Dinner on behalf of ADL. Dr. Archibald will also participate the following day in a panel discussion on Mobilizing Learning, moderated by Gary Woodill, author “The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools & Technologies for Developing Your Teams”. The Summit is being held in Alexandria, VA, 20-21 March 2012. Registration is now open.

ADL Summarizes Next Generation SCORM Requirements

ADL, through a Broad Area Announcement (BAA) with Rustici Software, is pleased to present a compilation of the community requirements for the Next Generation SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model). This White Paper translates a variety of technical and non-technical requirements that were collected and voted on as a part of the BAA outreach to the ADL Community. The result, although somewhat technical in nature, is a unified vision of what Next Generation SCORM should be. ADL, following the community needs, will strive to make the Next Generation SCORM:

• Track diverse user learning experiences such as social media, mobile learning, games, simulations, and mixed modality exercises.
• Move beyond the single-learner model to allow team-based exercises, collaboration, and direct instructor intervention.
• Eliminate out-of-date technology practices such as the idea that all content needs to fit into a "package".
• Improve or eliminate the content sequencing and ineffective requirements.
• Include tools, guides, and best practices to make the learning curve for Next Generation SCORM easier.
• Provide clearer instructions and more efficient testing to make content work across systems.
• Allow content to function in situations where access to network infrastructure is limited or intermittent.
• Provide a means to expose user data to instructors while keeping assessment data secure.

From eLearning to mLearning: An Honorable Reception

The Mobile Learning Team recently concluded their research on the effectiveness of mobile course delivery. As a result of this research, ADL published a research paper and was asked to present their findings at the 2011 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in December. The title of the paper and presentation is "From eLearning to mLearning: The Effectiveness of Mobile Course Delivery." The paper was awarded Honorable Mention for Best Paper at the conference.

• Download the presentation.(PDF, 5.6MB)
• Download the research paper.(PDF, .8MB)

• Eighty-five percent of the participants/respondents said they would complete their annual mandatory training on mobile devices if this alternative option were provided. This response indicates there is definitely a high degree of effectiveness with mobile platforms. This positive response should also begin to help Military education and training stakeholders formulate plans for future research in using mobile devices for delivering courses or other types of learning activities.
• Seventy percent of the participants who had previously completed the eLearning course actually preferred the mobile version. Why? Their answers to this question and more can be discovered by reading the complete research paper!