Facilitators: Daniel R. Rehak, Ph.D., ADL Technical Advisor, U.S. ADL Initiative, and Steve Lay, Questionmark Integration Team Lead
Title: Shaping the Future of ADL SCORM: What’s On Your Wish List?
Context:
As part of its plan to release an enhanced, harmonized version of its SCORM interoperability standards in 2011, ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) is actively seeking the views of SCORM and AICC community members. Come to this session to tell ADL about the assessment tracking and reporting capabilities that you, as a Questionmark Perception user, would like to see more fully developed in future versions of SCORM.
This session will include a brief presentation about ADL and SCORM, followed by a discussion. Take this opportunity to influence the future of SCORM by sharing your assessment-related needs and requirements.
Kick-off Questions:
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What is your experience to date with SCORM or AICC?
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What information would you like to be reported back to your LMS?
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What information would you like to see reported back to Perception?
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What sorts of assessments would you like to use in connection with SCORM and AICC content?
Recommended Experience Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Facilitator Bios:
Daniel R. Rehak is technical advisor to the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL). In this position
he is responsible for technical and strategic advice focusing primarily on the direction and refinement of
ADL’s activities in the development of SCORM and content repositories and registries. Dr. Rehak has over 15
years of experience in the e-Learning industry as a technical strategist, information architect and planner.
He is the founder of Daniel R. Rehak Consulting, LLC, a consultancy focusing on systems design, information
management and architecture, with emphasis on learning and training technologies, content and knowledge
management and related technology interoperability standards. He has held prior positions as the Co-Director
of the Workforce Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory and the Technical Director of the Learning
Systems Architecture Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, which he co-founded in 2000.
Before joining Questionmark as Integration Team Lead, Steve Lay worked at the University of Cambridge's Centre
for Applied Research into Educational Technologies (CARET). There, he managed the transition from a number of
trial virtual research environments (VREs) to the University's chosen system based on the Sakai open source
platform, CamTools. Prior to that he was part of a new technologies team at Cambridge Assessment, which
provides a range of examinations across the world. At Cambridge Assessment he was heavily involved in the
Question and Test Interoperability specification development process (QTI). Early in his career, Steve worked
in the University of Cambridge Department. of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics on projects ranging from
the development of the Digital Desk to the production of multimedia course materials and other teaching
support software.
