AICC/SCORM/IMS/IEEE
Standards and Specifications

Global Collaboration Partners provides support to our customers’ requirements to integrate e-learning content within multi-vendor environments by adhering to a standards-based approach and by partnering with leading providers of related enterprise technologies. We have extensive experience in delivering our content through all of the leading Learning Management Systems.

Advanced Distributed Learning and SCORM

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative is a strategy sponsored by the U.S. government, industry, and academic leaders to facilitate instructional content development and delivery using current and emerging technologies. Specifically, its Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) project focuses on next-generation open architecture for online learning, including standards for run-time communication, course structure, and content meta-data. Visit ADL to learn more.

Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee

The Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC) is an international association of technology-based training professionals that creates guidelines for the development, delivery, and evaluation of training technologies. The AICC pioneered the most widely accepted interoperability standards for computer-based and web-based training. Its relevant publications for standards are the AICC Guidelines and Recommendations (AGRs). See AICC AGR 6 and AICC AGR 10 for information on content interoperability and web-based communication. Visit AICC for more information.

IMS Global Learning Consortium

The IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) is a nonprofit corporation that began with a focus on higher education. Today, they've expanded their specifications and projects to address a wide range of learning contexts, including school, university, corporate, and government training. Available specifications include: Learning Resource Meta-data, Enterprise, Content Packaging, and Question & Test Interoperability. International IMS Centres exist in four countries to support local constituents. Visit IMS for more information.

IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Standards Activity Board has chartered the Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) to develop technical standards, recommended practices, and guides for computer implementations of education and training components and systems—specifically, the software components, tools, technologies, and design methods that facilitate their development, deployment, maintenance, and interoperation. Many of the standards developed by LTSC will be advanced as international standards by the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee Subcommittee on Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36). Visit IEEE for more information.