(Español) Washington, DC, March 26, 2007 - The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory (Co-Lab) Hub, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication (ILCE) signed an Intent to Cooperate to support the global development of ADL.  The ILCE represents a learning community in 13 nations across Latin America and the Caribbean. 

This announcement at the Latin American ADL Partnership Lab is the culmination of a close relationship developed over the past years between the U.S., and Latin American and Caribbean regions on ADL topics.  The Latin American and Caribbean effort joins the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Korea as the fifth ADL Partnership Lab.  ILCE will collaborate on best practices and standardization of tools and course content for technology-based learning.

ILCE desired to establish an ADL Partnership Laboratory to focus on broadcasting, promoting and implanting the Sharable Object Reference Model (SCORM) in the management of e-learning technologies.  ILCE will work through the ADL Co-Lab Hub in Alexandria, Virginia, to share research, lessons learned and technical evaluations on learning outcomes, and to collaborate on projects of mutual interest.

About the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication
The mission of the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication is the development and dissemination of research and application of information and communication technology for education and production of distance education materials and the training of human resources. Additional information about ILCE is available at www.ilce.edu.mx/.

About the ADL Initiative
The ADL Initiative is a collaboration between public and private sectors and academia’s efforts to harness the power of information technologies to advance structured learning environments.  The Initiative, as an enabler for the DoD Training Transformation program, sets forth a new paradigm to provide access to the highest quality education and training that can be tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, whenever and wherever it is required.  Today, the ADL Co-Lab Hub has more than 250 partners from within the academic, government and industry sectors, including a growing number from Latin America and other regions.