108 Introduction to CMI-5, the Next Generation of SCORM
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Wednesday, June 10
Development
503
The SCORM specification is now over 10 years old and is showing its age. The need for mobile training content, distributed e-learning, and flexible data tracking are just some of the elements missing from SCORM. The Experience API (xAPI) has laid the foundation for a new generation of SCORM. Now that ADL has adopted the CMI-5 specification, it is clear that CMI-5 is the solution to many of SCORM's problems.
In this session, you will learn why CMI-5 provides a solution to may of the limitations and challenges associated with SCORM. You will explore this powerful new specification. You will examine the history of the LMS to content communication, identify several problems in SCORM and show how CMI-5 resolves many long-standing issues for content developers and LMS users.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to identify the problems and limits of SCORM
- How to identify the benefits of CMI-5 over SCORM
- How to define use cases where CMI-5 is preferable to SCORM
- A brief history of content to LMS communication standards
Audience:
Intermediate designers and developers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
The xAPI, SCORM, and CMI-5.
Art Werkenthin
President
RISC
Art Werkenthin, president of RISC, built his first learning management system (LMS) in 1988 and now has over 25 years' experience working with LMS in the oil and gas, retail, finance, and other industries. Art is keenly interested in the xAPI specification, and RISC was an early adopter of this technology. Interested in expanding the xAPI to the LMS, Art has served for the past three years on the ADL cmi5 committee. In 2015, RISC demonstrated the first implementation of a cmi5 runtime engine embedded in its LMS. Art has presented on cmi5 at several conferences, including mLearnCon, DevLearn, and xAPI Camp.
