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ADL is making its non-sensitive software development projects available on the software sharing site, GitHub. GitHub is a web-based hostlng service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. Its open development model is well suited for the prototype projects that ADL is currently involved with. ... Read More

Austin Montoya Austin Montoya is a software engineer who holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, and curr... Read More

Jono Poltrack Jonathan Poltrack has been involved with the ADL Initiative since 1999 where he was an early contributor to the SCORM. As a so... Read More

The eLearning and Software for Education (eLSE) 2012 conference will be held 26-27 April in Bucharest, Romania. The Romania ADL Partnership Lab is a supporting organization for this annual international scientific conference that provides a forum for exchange of ideas, research outco... Read More

Peter Berking Peter Berking has an M.A. in Education from UC Berkeley and has led Instructional Design eff... Read More

ADL will again receive a Learning! 100 award from Elearning! Media Group during the Enterprise Learning! Summit 2012. The Learning! 100 Awards recognize the top 100 organizations for their best-in-class... Read More

Rob Chadwick Rob Chadwick is a 3D programmer and artist who has been working in the 3D content field for mo... Read More

ADL, through a Broad Area Announcement (BAA) with Rustici Software, is pleased to present a compilation of the community requirements for the Next Generation SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model). This White Paper translates a variety of technical ... Read More

The Mobile Learning Team recently concluded their research on the effectiveness of mobile course delivery. As a result of this research, ADL published a research paper and was asked to present their findings at the 2011 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in December. The title of the paper and presentation is "From eLearning to mLearning: The Effectiven... Read More

Jeff Mills Jeffrey Mills serves as ADL’s Project Coordinator fo... Read More

The Office of Science Technology Policy released a statement on 19 January 2012 announcing several new public and private sector education initiatives, including the launch of data.gov/education as a central repository for education data resources. These programs join one of ADL's key Search & Retrieval... Read More

Nikolaus Hruska Nikolaus Hruska is a software engineer and researcher with over ten years of experience. He is currently working on the Next Generation S... Read More

In 2010-2011, ADL led the task of updating its previous SCORM Best Practices Guidelines documents. During the initial review of the existing guidelines, the team determined that two guides should be produced: one targeted specifically at Instructional Systems Designers (ISDs) and one that addressed the additional needs of Programmers and Developers. While these documents were produced to... Read More

The ADL Next Generation Architecture Proof-of-Concepts from iFest 2011 (hereafter referred to as “iFest Prototypes”) are demonstrations of the potential of a new learning architecture beyond SCORM. Several prototypes were created to illustrate different requirements of the next generation architecture. Why were the iFest Prototypes created? SCORM was initiated in the late 1990’... Read More

Rob Chadwick Rob Chadwick is a 3D programmer and artist who has been working in the 3D content field for more tha... Read More

ADL is pleased to announce the release of the Unity-SCORM Integration Toolkit. The toolkit is the result of an ADL Technical Team research and development project that focused on using games and simulations as part of an e-learning curriculum. After an assessment of the most common questions submitted to the ADL Help Desk and after gathering additional requirements from 3rd party outreach efforts,... Read More

Note: the Unity-SCORM Quick Start Guide comes with the Unity zip download as a PDF file. Follow the steps below to get Unity-SCORM up and running in no time at all. By following these steps, your Unity content will be SCORM-conformant and will inform the LMS that your course is complete. This tutorial assumes you have basic Unity authoring skills. This guide details a simple use case for SCORM-... Read More

The Unity-SCORM Integration Toolkit is the result of an ADL Technical Team research and development project which focused on using games and simulations as part of an e-learning curriculum.  After an assessment of the most common questions submitted to the ADL Help Desk and after gathering additional requirements from 3rd party outreach efforts, we began a project to make creating SCORM-Conforman... Read More

Conference held November 28 – December 1, 2011 in Orlando, FL Search & Retrieval Learning Registry Overview and Update - Damon Regan The Learning Registry: Sharing Federal Learning Resources – Paul Jesukiewicz & Dr. Daniel Rehak ... Read More

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2011 was held in Orlando FL 28 November through 1 December. This year’s conference featured many Serious Games and a variety of innovative game-related content. Many companies that have traditionally been considered entertainment games companies had a large presences at the conference, and many booths had one games... Read More

This report on Designing Adaptive Instructional Environment: Insights from Empirical Evidence (PDF),  published by the United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, provides the results of an analysis of twenty research pa... Read More

The official launch of the Learning Registry project was announced at the State Educational Technology Directors Association’s Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.  The Learning Registry is a joint project between the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Defense (DoD). ADL provided the technical leadership for the Learning Registry project, an infrastructure allowing the excha... Read More

For three years, Wayne Gafford of ADL’s Life Cycle and Configuration team led a multi-national effort to create a solution for bridging the information divide between technical manuals and distributed learning and other forms of technical training content. The result, he says, is a new Concept of Operations (CONOPS) business model for the acquisition, development and life-cycle management of int... Read More

ADL’s Life Cycle and Configuration team has produced a new Concept of Operations (CONOPS) business model for the acquisition, development and life-cycle management of integrated data used in technical publications and interactive multimedia instruction products. The Bridge Project was funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) as p... Read More

The SCORM CMI5 Wrapper was developed to demonstrate how to support legacy SCORM content in an LMS enabled with the extensible data model, CMI5.  This wrapper was specifically designed to run in the prototype CMI5 Learning Record Store (LRS) that ADL demonstrated at iFest 2011, illustrating the tracking of learning content from non-traditional e-learning sources.  Since it was developed for the d... Read More

*Due to an overwhelming response, this workshop is full to capacity. If you would like to be added the the waiting list, please fill out the registration form. We will notify you if there are cancellations.* ... Read More

ADL is pleased to announce the release of the authoritative SCORM Version 1.2 and SCORM 2004 API Wrapper files.  The API Wrapper files are commonly used JavaScript files that assist content developers with use of the SCORM Run-Time API.  Many Sharable Content Objects (SCOs) use the APIWrapper.js file to call SCORM mandatory methods, Initialize(“”) and Terminate(“”) and optional API metho... Read More

On Monday, 29 August 2011, the ADL Mobile Learning Team conducted a one-day workshop at the Alexandria, VA, Co-Lab for a great group of interested attendees. Since Hurricane Irene caused some registrants to cancel at the last minute, we are working on a date for an additional workshop this fall. As part of the workshop we discussed some recent announcements that could change both the mobile dev... Read More

Earlier this year, the ADL Mobile Learning Team conducted a survey to investigate the current usage of mobile devices among its Department of Defense (DoD) stakeholders. The survey also queried respondents about their attitudes and concerns regarding the use of mobile devices for mandatory training. Review the ... Read More

In addition to the presentations, webinars and workshops the ADL Mobile Learning Team conducts, we attempt to attend one or two outside webinars per week to better keep up with what others are doing with mobile learning. Earlier this month we attended an interesting Sloan-C Institute webinar entitled “Quality Standards for Using Mobile Apps for Teaching, Learning and Workforce Development PreK-2... Read More

Earlier this month the GSMA, a membership organization representing the worldwide mobile communications industry, released several PDF reports on Mobile Education. The “Mobile Education in the United States” report covers the U.S. formal education sector, while “... Read More

ADL’s iFest 2011 debuted with a new, shorter name  to better reflect ADL’s current program. The tag line is three words beginning with “i” that describe ADL's mission: innovation, instruction and implementation. iFest 2011 was held at the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida from August 2 through 4, and drew more than 260 attendees from government, military, industry and academic sectors.  R... Read More

Plus ADLnet.gov has a new look ADL’s iFest 2011, formerly called Implementation... Read More

The ADL Mobile Learning Team has identified many authoring tools for mobile content creation and delivery. We have published an initial listing of thirty-six from which we have received verification from vendors. The current listing is available in both a spreadsheet and PDF format in our ADL Mobile Learni... Read More

The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge is entering its sixth year as an I/ITSEC Special Event. This year marks the first major expansion of the challenge to include mobile games as well as a special, OSD-sponsored prize for adaptive training games. This year's competition is officially underway with submissions open from now until September 15th. Enter your serious games today! -- Entries ac... Read More

The ADL Mobile Team has released the Mobile Learning Handbook in .PDF format. The latest update to this Handbook is 9 August 2011. We recommend visiting the Handbook online for the latest information, but if you are in need of a hardcopy, it can be found here.... Read More

Are you looking for a particular slide presentation from iFest? Most of the presentations have now been uploaded. Check back here for updates as we work to obtain final versions of a few missing files. (Some of the sessions did not have slide presentations and those are noted on the list.) iFest 2011 Presentations... Read More

Dr. Kristy Murray unveiled ADL's new website at www.ADLnet.gov. She encourages the ADL Community to explore the site and provide feedback. Visit the site frequently as we continue to add resources and updated content. ... Read More

Every day, the Mobile Learning Team encounters an overwhelming numbers of stats about this fast moving industry. Chetan Sharma indicates in his latest industry report that the global mobile industry is now the most “vibrant” and “fastest growing industry” on the planet. ... Read More

ADL Mobile Learning Handbook released to public at ImplementationFest 2011. This set of guidelines for developing mobile learning is an enhanced version of the mLearning Guide for mobile devices that was released previously. The downloadable Guide and the new online Handbook are both... Read More

This is the perfect video webinar for instructional designers who need to start developing e-learning content for use in a SCORM 2004-compliant LMS. Available when you need and where you need it, this webinar will give you a basic understanding of how to start developing reusable content. While intended for a SCORM 2004 audience, many of the considerations for re-use can be utilized by SCORM 1.2 ... Read More

Never heard of SCORM until now? Tasked with creating SCORM-conformant content? Wondering what SCORM is and where to get started? This video webinar will provide an overview of SCORM concepts. It will: define key terms (such as assets, sharable content objects, reusability), describe the main content in each of the SCORM 2004 books, discuss major considerations when planning a SCORM content deve... Read More

Registration is currently full for the Mobile Learning Workshop for Washington, DC area learning technologists that is being held on August 29, at the ADL Co-Lab in Alexandria, Virginia. Led by Judy Brown and Jason Haag of the ADL Mobile Learning Team, the workshop is co-sponsored by the DC chapter of ASTD. It's free but limited to 60 participants. (See more details ... Read More

Peter Smith, Emerging Technologies Team Lead, recently presented on the use of social games in education at HCI International 2011 in Orlando, FL. http://www.hcii2011.org/... Read More

DAU Games (https://clc.dau.mil/games) now have high score tables included. Look for them over the next several months. ... Read More

Thanks for visiting the Free Trial Demo Capability of ADLnet.gov. This area was formerly the Learning Technology Lab, but has been expanded to encompass all possible ADL Trial Demonstrations.... Read More

Over the last few years, ADL has received feedback from multiple communities of practice that the need exists for an updated set of SCORM Best Practices Guidelines (BPG). SCORM 2004 was designed to be flexible in meeting the needs of individual communities and projects. This flexibility, coupled with a purposeful lack of prescriptive design guidance in the SCORM Books, has resulted in the need for... Read More

Welcome to the new ADLnet.gov and the SCORM Capability. Things have been organized to be more streamlined. If you cannot find something or want to leave feedback about the website, feel free to comment or send questions to helpdesk@adlnet.gov... Read More

Stay tuned to ADL Annoucements at Implementation Fest 2011 for information regarding SCORM 2004 4th Edition Certification.... Read More

The new 2011 ADL mLearning Guide mobile version is now available at http://mlearn.adlnet.mobi or http://mlearn.adlnet.gov/. It should work on all smartphones. Versions for other devices will be available shortly in their associated stores. This Guide is currently available from: ... Read More