Icodeon are sponsoring the IMS Global Learning Consortium conference "Learning Impact" at Austin, Texas during 12-15th May.

Icodeon will be available during the reception "Technical Exchange" on Tuesday 13th 17:00 -18:30, and will be presenting a short Case Study: SCORM® Interoperability at the Improving Interoperability in Practice Workshop on Thursday 15th at 14:00.

Icodeon will also be demonstrating the use of IMS Tools Interoperability Specification to integrate Icodeon SCORM Player into Moodle and Microsoft Sharepoint. See Demonstration showcase on Thursday 15th at 09:00.

This day was looking at SCORM 2004 4th Edition. The expectation is that a 4th Edition Test Suite BETA available in September 2008 with 60 days for feedback. This leads to a release of the 4th Edition Test Suite in November 2008, with Conformance labs available for certification in early 2009.

There was also an invitation to deploy to the ADL Test Bed. 

This day focussed on the so called SCORM 2.0 - a next generation SCORM that will use SCORM 2004 4th Edition functionality as a "core" with optional (community specific) profiles added on top.

There seemed some contradiction with the need for the core SCORM to align with SCORM 2004, but the desire to pursue a really new architecture that may be completely different to SCORM 2004. LETSI are manging the process of colecting SCORM 2.0 business case white papers with the intent of addressing the same technical challenges as previous versions of SCORM (interoperability of content and run times) but in a archiecture and context that reflects the world of 21st C, rather than 1980s CBT/

See http://www.letsi.org/letsi/display/nextscorm/Home