SCORM's stewardship to be transferred from the US Department of Defence

Kevin Donovan

In February, Mike Collett wrote a Guest Contribution about The Global 2007 conference, which took place in London on 19 March. Kevin Donovan was there, and has written a report from the event for the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) - for which I work part time. An edited version of Kevin's report, with photos, will appear in the next issue of the ALT Newsletter. In the meantime, an unedited version, in plain text, is on the ALT web site. Here is the article's introductory summary.

The Global 2007 conference was held in London on 19th March. Sponsored by the DfES and ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning – the organisation responsible for SCORM), and with support from all the key interoperability standards organisations, the event was held to discuss good practice relating to the use of technology in "learning, education and training". But more importantly it was the start of the process by which the stewardship of SCORM is transferred from the US Department of Defence (which manages ADL) to a new body.