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Stay tuned to the AICC News Blog where we plan to add more highlights and some short podcasts as we celebrate 20 years of AICC achievements and experiences in aviation and technology-based training. The AICC is reaching out to past participants and AICC Chairmen for their observations and recollections. Please feel free to contribute and enjoy.

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The final data from the AICC Adobe Authorware End-of-Development Issues and Impacts survey is now available online. Thank you to the 68 representatives from various organizations and industries who completed the entire survey. Names, email addresses and organizations are not included in the published data. Reasonable attempts were also made to remove identifying information from free-form comments.

The final survey data is published as a Acrobat PDF, available from:

http://www.aicc.org/docs/misc/AICC-Report-Final-Aw_Impacts.pdf

A review an discussion of the survey results is expected to be held at the AICC Meetings in January 2008 in San Jose, California, USA. See the AICC Meeting Information page for additional meeting agenda information as it becomes available.

For the benefit of the community, we encourage use of the AICC Forum, Authorware Survey Discussions to both centralize and archive the discussions for maximum sustained impact.

Note: The Adobe Authorware End-of-Development survey is official closed and the survey URL is no longer active.

Regards,

Tom King
AICC Communications Chairman

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The preliminary data from the AICC Adobe Authorware End-of-Development Issues and Impacts survey is now available online. Thank you to all those who have already responded. Names, email addresses and organizations are not included in the published data. This preliminary data is published as a Acrobat PDF, available from:

http://www.aicc.org/docs/working/AICC-Report-Redacted.pdf

Representatives from over 45 organization have responded, and approximately 25% of those organizations are involved in commercial aviation. Other organizations represented include: financial services, healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, military and defense, professional education, professional services and others.

The survey will remain open until November 16, 2007. Please consider completing the survey if you have not done so already. The survey is available at:

http://www.questionmark.com/go/aiccsurvey

Regards,

Tom King
AICC Communications Chairman

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The AICC survey on Authorware End-of-Development Impact and Issues is now available online. This survey is a direct follow-up to information gathering at meetings and from online discussions in the AICC Forums for Authorware End-of-Development. The survey consolidates feedback from the Forum's topic on Impacts and Issues Survey into the 23 question survey. The initial expectation is to keep the survey open for 10-14 days for data collection, but the AICC reserves the right to shorten or extend that period.

The survey URL is indicated below. Be aware that it may take a moment or two to re-direct to the actual survey form URL.

http://www.questionmark.com/go/aiccsurvey

If you are interested in the issues surrounding Authorware End-of-Development and its impact on training, please be considerate and make every effort to answer completely, accurately and honestly for the sake of the community.

Regards,

Tom King
AICC Communications Subcommittee Chairman

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The CSA (Content Services Architecture) initiative is a new AICC work group that is developing a set of specifications to drive adoption of interoperable web services to support learning and training. Participation in the CSA work group is open to any organization wishing to join. Note that membership is by company/organization and not by individual.

CSA will specify web services that facilitate integration of hosted content, data and content catalog synchronization between publisher (Content Management) and content consumer systems such as a LMS (learning management system). CSA web services will also support a variety of access control and commerce models to integrate content-as-a-service and LMS-as-a-service capabilities. With CSA specifications, content on different internet domains can work seamlessly with a Learning Management System (LMS) in a different internet domain through web services.

The success of this forward-looking initiative depends on strong participation from the elearning community and the AICC greatly needs your help. If you are a LMS (Learning Management System) vendor, CMS (Content Management System) vendor, content creation tool vendor, or an organization that is a content consumer you are encouraged to get involved. Much preliminary work has been done and preliminary input is already being gathered for initial draft documents. The AICC also hosts a CSA Discussion Forum online as a point for collaboration.

Please contact the AICC at CSA@aicc.org if your organization is interested in joining our team.

Thank you.

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The AICC has established an open, registration-required, discussion forum for issues relating to the end-of-development for Adobe Authorware. This action has created significant uncertainty and is expected to have significant financial and technical ramifications across many industries. The AICC Authorware End-of-Development Discussion Forum is a place to contribute your feedback, comments and observations for an open letter to Adobe from the training community.

The live discussion at the AICC Meeting has already resulted in a variety of RFP requirements, risk management strategies, conversion strategies, tools & services proposals, and criteria for selection of future and alternative suppliers and technologies. Concerns included avoiding trading one opaque/proprietary format for another, IE7 compatibility, Vista compatibility, and the sheer scope and resource requirements of completely redeveloping content from scratch.

It was generally agreed that partial, but not complete, conversion from Authorware to other formats may be acceptable. Further discussion revealed that individual organizations may have specific categories of content and conversion could likely be "hand-tuned" to increase the fidelity/success with that content. Extra or custom effort to achieve such conversions is considered acceptable.

Some interesting alternatives include migrations from Adobe Authorware to Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), HTML/DHTML, and/or Microsoft Silverlight rather than Adobe AIR, Director MX 2004, Flash, or Flex.

Participants also called for a prompt response from Adobe regarding their plans for a roadmap, response or guidance-- many organization are currently making development plans, technology selections, and preparing RFPs for this calendar year. Discussion notes are included in the AICC Meeting minutes, which will be posted after this week's meeting conclude on September 27, 2007.

Please visit the AICC Authorware End-of-Development Discussion Forum to learn additional information or share your feedback and ideas.

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