Last Wednesday along with 190 others Icodeon joined the "SCORM 2.0 and Beyond" webinar hosted by LETSI. See the blog post by Sheila Macneill here from JISC/CETIS for a summary of the Webinar.

Icodeon participated in the 2009 Vigo, Spain ASPECT Workshop working with e-learning standards experts and K-12 content providers from across the European Union.

ASPECT is a new, 30-month Best Practice Network supported by the European Commission's eContentplusProgrammethat involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers. For the first time, experts from all international standardisation bodies and consortia active in e-learning (CEN/ISSS, IEEE, ISO, IMS, ADL) will work together in order to improve the adoption of learning technology standards and specifications.

Common Cartridge Testfest, Long Beach, CA.
The recent Testfest was well attended with a healthy group of implementers prepared to generate cartridges on the fly and subject them to testing and trial by the others present.

Chris Moffatt from Microsoft who demonstrated the open source SCORM2CC tool developed by Icodeon.

This takes a SCORM zip file and transforms it into a Common Cartridge zip file. For SCORM packages that do not use simple sequencing or such esoteric features as sub-manifests, the tool is able to create the CC equivalent quite reliably, as demonstrated by the fact that a number of the resulting cartridges successfully passed the CC compliance test!

The International Federation for Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability (LETSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving systems interoperability and supporting innovation in learning, education, and training technology. LETSI are stewarding the process of SCORM evolution to SCORM 2.0

https://letsi.org/

Icodeon is pleased to announce sponsorship of the 2009 Learning Impact Conference, Barcelona, Spain 11-14 May 2009.

http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2009/

Icodeon participated in the 2008 Leuven ASPECT Workshop with a presentation that compared the SCORM 2004 specification with the IMS Common Cartridge specification.

ASPECT is a new, 30-month Best Practice Network supported by the European Commission's eContentplusProgrammethat involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers. For the first time, experts from all international standardisation bodies and consortia active in e-learning (CEN/ISSS, IEEE, ISO, IMS, ADL) will work together in order to improve the adoption of learning technology standards and specifications.

Icodeon was delighted to host a European Union ASPECT project workshop at the St Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge, UK.

ASPECT is a new, 30-month Best Practice Network supported by the European Commission's eContentplusProgrammethat involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers. For the first time, experts from all international standardisation bodies and consortia active in e-learning (CEN/ISSS, IEEE, ISO, IMS, ADL) will work together in order to improve the adoption of learning technology standards and specifications.

Icodeon will be represented at the upcoming SCORM 2.0 workshop: a 3-day meeting, Wednesday, October 15, 2008 through Friday at 12:00 p.m. Hosted by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). This meeting will discuss the requirements and technical alternatives for SCORM 2.0, based on the White Papers submitted to LETSI.

ASPECT is a new, large-scale project supported by the European Commission's eContentplus Programme that will have its kickoff meeting in September 2008.
The project is a 30-month, Best Practice Network for educational content that involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers. For the first time, experts from all international standardisation bodies and consortia active in e-learning (CEN/ISSS, IEEE, ISO, IMS, ADL) will work together in order to improve the adoption of learning technology standards and specifications.http://aspect.eun.org/

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

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. 

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.

Learning Impact 2008 is IMS Global Learning Consortium's annual conference that brings together the world's leading creators, vendors, users, and buyers of learning technology to participate in program tracks focused on the latest innovations in learning systems, digital learning content, the learning enterprise, and open technologies. Presenters answer a key challenge question designed to inform the attendees on the state of innovation and best practices.

The Summit on Global Learning Industry Challengesis a gathering of industry leaders to introduce and debate ideas on issues impacting the growth of learning worldwide. This is a unique and highly direct conversation for the purpose of illuminating the key business challenges facing the learning industry. The Summit is facilitated by a focused set of highly interactive panel sessions with audience participation.

http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2008/sponsors.html

Icodeon have released the Icodeon SCORM Player Version 2 .NET Edition (minor upate 2.05)Release Notes - Icodeon SCORM Player Version 2 .NET Edition - Version 2.05

Release Notes - Icodeon SCORM Player Version 2 .NET Edition - Version 2.05

Bug
NET-227] - Corrected ADL presentation element hideLMSUI for the navigation request=exit
NET-229] - Vendor reports error with UpdateName variable when a non-SCORM datamodel is used

Task
NET-228] - Edited ActivityTree build to support XML returned from .NET web service and Java web service
NET-230] - Added support for decoding unicode characters in menu labels
NET-231] - Added support for Mozilla Firefox Bug 238559 and Icodeon Support Case 00001038
NET-234] - Added Wimba Course Genie Example SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 Packages to distribution
NET-236] - Added Course Lab Package Example
NET-237] - Add Microsoft Learning Essentials Example
NET-239] - Add Polish Language Support
NET-251] - Added Server Side Validation for XML From Unexpected Window Close Event
NET-252] - Refactored C# Code in .NET Edition to Align with Code in Java Edition.
NET-253] - Added About.txt file to .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 Editions
NET-254] - Added Example Source Code for Event API Implementation
NET-255] - Added Schema.html and SQL for Example Queries for Whole Course Status

Hi, we are trying to persist data between sessions in a SCORM 2004 course hosted on an Icodeon server

When we save any data, say to suspend data, it stores it OK. However, when I run the course again by running a SCORM Initialize from the HTML body tag, all the existing stored data seems to disappear?

This means I cannot retrieve any stored VLE data as it does not exist any more so I cannot persist data between sessions? This means that users can store data whilst using the course but cannot retrieve saved data when they leave a course and go back to it some days later as all the data is deleted when the new course is run i.e. when the "inititalize"  call is made to the SCORM VLE.

I am not really sure what is happening here as all of this works fine on our local Moodle VLE?

I wondered if there is a setting in Icodeon that has been set/not been set that automatically deletes the stored SCORM data when a course is run again?

FYI I used the SCORM 2004 detective supplied on the install using the default settings and there is a similar problem with suspend data not being able to be retrieved on subsequent visits to this course. 

I noticed there is a config file where you can change the data persistence settings and whether to store the data in a database or in XML. I thought there might be a setting here for persisting data between sessions which might help with my problem? Or do I need to chage my manifest SCORM calls and /or manisfest XML file in some way?

Thanks in advance for any information on this.