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| * The [[SCORM]] specifications define some java-script bindings to insure interroperability of simple interactive contents (that is BTW one of the areas where a lot of systems are not Scorm compatible, even if they claim so ...) | | * The [[SCORM]] specifications define some java-script bindings to insure interroperability of simple interactive contents (that is BTW one of the areas where a lot of systems are not Scorm compatible, even if they claim so ...) |
| * [[IMS General Web Services]] to allow for interoperability of various systems. This is a fairly new standard (Jan 2006) and is an interesting initiative. | | * [[IMS General Web Services]] to allow for interoperability of various systems. This is a fairly new standard (Jan 2006) and is an interesting initiative. |
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| === Overview table ===
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| {{comment | needs some additions and fixes - [[User:DSchneider|DSchneider]] 12:34, 21 December 2006 (MET)}}
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| <table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="1"
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| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
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| <tr>
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| <th style="width: 142px;">Name</th>
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| <th style="width: 111px;">Version</th>
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| <th style="width: 235px;">Description<br>
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| </th>
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| <th style="width: 144px;">Status</th>
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| <th>Origin</th>
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| <th>Standards<br>
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| Body</th>
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| <th>Part of /<br>
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| adopted by</th>
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| <th>Integrates<br>
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| with</th>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined">Comments/<br>
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| explanations</td>
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| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined">Not all are shown</td>
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| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined">Contents are more or less copied from
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| relevant web sites</td>
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| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined">Is it really used ? and where</td>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Who
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| worked on the spec.</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Who
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| is the final authority</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Is
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| it part of a collection / profile ?</td>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Can
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| it contain others or is it containable ?</td>
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| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
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| <th style="width: 235px;" colspan="7" rowspan="1">Content
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| Packaging (overall structure of a reusable learning object and minimal
| |
| sequencing)</th>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td style="width: 142px;" colspan="1" rowspan="3"
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| align="undefined" valign="undefined">[[IMS Content
| |
| Packaging]]</td>
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| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined">1.1.2<br>
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| (8/2001)</td>
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| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined"> The IMS Content Packaging Specification
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| provides the functionality to
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| describe and package learning materials, such as an individual course
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| or
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| a collection of courses, into interoperable, distributable packages.
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| Content Packaging addresses the description, structure, and location of
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| online learning materials and the definition of some particular content
| |
| types.</td>
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| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined"></td>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">?</td>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS</td>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM
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| 1.2</td>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Can
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| contain:<br>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined">1.1.3<br>
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| (7/2003)</td>
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| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined">Minor change of 1.1.2</td>
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| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
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| valign="undefined"></td>
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| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
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| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">1.1.4<br>
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| (2004)</td>
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| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">A maintenance release of 1.1.2 (17
| |
| precisions meaning that badly written 1.1.3 files should be fixed)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Imports in most [[LMS]] (if it can handle
| |
| the organizations part ...)</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM 1.2<br>
| |
| SCORM 1.4</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Can
| |
| contain:<br>
| |
| IEEE LOM<br>
| |
| IMS LD<br>
| |
| IMS SS<br>
| |
| IMS QTI</td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">AICC Course Structure Format</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">(see below)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">AICC</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">AICC</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">SCORM Content Structure Format (CSF)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"><br>
| |
| </td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">This format is deprecated (replaced by
| |
| IMS CP + Scorm extensions that integrate CFS functionality)</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">AICC
| |
| </td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">ADL</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM
| |
| 1.1</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <th style="width: 235px;" colspan="8" rowspan="1">Meta
| |
| Data (description of an overall learning object or parts of it)</th>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">IMS Meta-Data (MD) </td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">1.2 (2001)<br>
| |
| 1.2.1 (2001)<br>
| |
| 1.2.2 (draft)<br>
| |
| 1.2.4 (2001)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Outdated now, but older "profiles"
| |
| require one of these versions. Differences among subversions are minor</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Elements
| |
| from Ariadne, Dublin Core, AICC</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"><span>[[Learning Object Metadata
| |
| Standard]] (LOM)<br>
| |
| </span></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">IEEE Std 1484.12.1 - 2002<br>
| |
| (IMS 1.3)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">A slightly cleaned up version of IMS Meta
| |
| Data 1.2</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Part of Content Profiles; Used by some
| |
| [[learning object repository]]</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IEEE</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"><span>IMS
| |
| Meta-Data 1.3;<br>
| |
| SCORM 1.2<br>
| |
| SCORM 2004;<br>
| |
| Many repositories</span></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Usually
| |
| part of an IMS CP</td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Dublin Core</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Very popular with [[digital library]],
| |
| e.g. DSPACE</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <th style="width: 235px;" colspan="7" rowspan="1">Pedagogical
| |
| contents and activities (see [[Educational modelling language]]s)</th>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">[[IMS Content Packaging]] (CP)<br>
| |
| (default organization)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">See IMS Content <br>
| |
| Packaging</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM
| |
| 1.2<br>
| |
| SCORM 2004</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Part
| |
| of:<br>
| |
| IMS CP 1.1.x</td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">SCORM Content Structure Format (CSF)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">See SCORM Content Structure Format<br>
| |
| above</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM
| |
| 1.1</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">[[IMS Simple Sequencing]] (SS)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">[[IMS Learning Design]] (LD)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">[[IMS Question and Test Interoperability]]<br>
| |
| (QTI)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">1.2<br>
| |
| 1.2 Lite<br>
| |
| 1.2.1</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">The IMS Question & Test
| |
| Interoperability (QTI) specification
| |
| describes a data model for the representation of question
| |
| (assessmentItem) and test (assessmentTest) data and their corresponding
| |
| results reports</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS
| |
| CP</td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">2.0<br>
| |
| 2.1</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">This version adds many features.</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS
| |
| CP<br>
| |
| IMS LD<br>
| |
| IMS SS<br>
| |
| SCORM 2004</td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <th style="width: 235px;" colspan="8" rowspan="1">Run-Time
| |
| environment specifications and data models</th>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Run-Time Environment (RTE)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">The RTE specifies how content should
| |
| behave once it has been launched by the LMS</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">ADL</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM
| |
| 1.2</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">AICC CMI Data Model</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">This data model makes sure that
| |
| a defined set of<br>
| |
| information about SCOs can be tracked by different LMS environments</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">AICC<br>
| |
| (also IEEE?)</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM
| |
| 1.2 (RTE);<br>
| |
| AICC Computer Managed Instruction (CMI)<br>
| |
| </td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <th style="width: 235px;" colspan="8" rowspan="1">Profiles
| |
| (collections of one or more specifications / standards)</th>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">AICC Computer Managed Instruction (CMI)
| |
| specifications</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Contains:<br>
| |
| ICC Course Structure Format;<br>
| |
| AICC CMI Data Model;</td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">SCORM<br>
| |
| Content Aggregation Model (CAM)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">The CAM specifies how you should package
| |
| your content so that it can be imported into an LMS</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">ADL</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM
| |
| 1.2</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS
| |
| CP<br>
| |
| IMS MD<br>
| |
| SCORM CP extensions<br>
| |
| </td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 142px;" colspan="1" rowspan="4"
| |
| align="undefined" valign="undefined">SCORM</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">1.0</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Rarely used</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">ADL</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">1.1</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">Not well supported (most systems support
| |
| 1.2)</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">ADL</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">1.2</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">This is still the most popular profile
| |
| (2006)On dec 18 2006, there were 71 certified systems.</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Elements
| |
| from IMS, AICC, ARIADNE, IEEE LTSC</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">ADL</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IMS
| |
| CP<br>
| |
| IMS MD<br>
| |
| SCORM RTE SCORM CAM<br>
| |
| <br>
| |
| </td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| <tr>
| |
| <td style="width: 111px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">2004 (1st, 2nd, 3rd edition)</td>
| |
| <td style="width: 235px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td style="width: 144px;" align="undefined"
| |
| valign="undefined">On dec 18, 2006 there were 32 certified
| |
| products, but no major players.</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">ADL</td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td>
| |
| <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">IEEE
| |
| LOM<br>
| |
| IMS CP<br>
| |
| IMS SS</td>
| |
| </tr>
| |
| </table>
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| == Some technical standards of interest == | | == Some technical standards of interest == |