AICC Subcommittee Working Group Meeting
Meeting Minutes
February 5th-9th, 2007
Phoenix, Arizona USA

AICC Meeting Notes - Phoenix, AZ

5 Feb - 8 Feb 2007

Note: in cases where the presentation was accompanied by PowerPoint slides, those slides are available on the AICC website along with these meeting notes. These notes are designed to provide enough information to determine whether the PowerPoint presentations would be of interest. See [Online Presentations].

Monday 5 Feb 07

Mike Sharp provided an introduction to the conference and the facility. He also described points of interest in the Phoenix area.

CMI Subcommittee

Bill McDonald, Alteon, Chairman

Bill provided an overview of all CMI activities.

SDA (Simple Deployment Architecture)

Ed Cohen: Plateau Systems

Ed's presentation provides an overview of SDA.

Discussion of XML Communication

It was decided to initiate a telecom to Kevin Schlipper to discuss with the group the direction of the XML Communication spec.

Kevin prefers 2 XSD's because this enables better validation of the data.

Tom King: How do we proceed? Start with a single XSD and then proceed to move to 2 XSD's with future documents? Or start by building 2 XSD's immediately?

Kevin: Build 2 immediately.

Tom: Do we do the split first, and then define data element types?

How to handle differences between HACP and API data was discussed.

Kevin volunteered to provide two XSD's for examination by Friday (Feb 9).

The revision of the document would be continued and discussed by telecom with a usable spec completed by April 2007. Bill McDonald volunteered to set up the telecom meetings.

Metadata

Jack Hyde, AICC

There was no metadata presentation. However, after the last meeting in Vancouver, the AICC metadata document (Aviation Industry Metadata Description) was approved. The next activity of the working group will be to build an XSD for the metadata.

Communications Subcommittee

Tom King

Tom's presentation focused on the AICC web site.

Google provides interesting information from visitors to our sight. Maps show where the most visitors come from and statistics show what people look for while at the web site.

Tom also described the AICC blog site and the activity it has experienced.

AdSense was discussed - AICC generates about $10 a month with ads. Tom estimates revenue of about $175 in 2007.

Tuesday 6 Feb 07

Chairman's Report

Neil Cramer, NWA

Neil emphasized that we need to address dues and meeting fees.

He provided the schedule for upcoming meetings.

June 18-22 Italy, Sestri Levante - Hosted by Giunti

Sep 2007 - St Louis, MO - Hosted by Boeing

Jan 2008 - San Jose, CA - Hosted by Adobe (Boeing Miami is a backup)

Jun 2008 - Hamburg, Germany - Hosted by Airbus

Sep 2008 - Washington, DC - Hosted by FAA/Plateau

Welcome from Honeywell & Overview of Honeywell Training Area Activities

Barry Lindsten, Honeywell

Barry's presentation discussed the organization and the training deliverables developed by Honeywell. About 3000 students are trained at the Honeywell Phoenix facilities each year.

Honeywell Distance Learning - What Works and What Doesn't

Jack Watson

Jack's presentation discussed the virtual classroom, course design, the internet broadcast studio, and other training resources.

Jack pointed out some of the e-training resources available for free on the Web at www.elearninguild.com.

Why Interactive Case Study Simulations?

Ken Spero, Humentum

Ken’s presentation answers the questions

What are interactive case study simulations?

When and how do you use case study simulations?

How do you develop case study simulations in a cost and time effective manner?

The objective of simulation based training is improved critical thinking.

Ken was asked if the case study simulations built with Humentum tools were SCORM compliant. He assured us Humentum tools are able to support SCORM data.

SCORM Stewardship Working Group

Tyde Richards

Tyde presented an ADL document identifying the purpose, principles, benefits, initial assumptions, organization, member roles, deliverables, and financial model of the LETSI (Learning Education and Training Systems Interoperability) group.

ADL current thinking is that the focus should be on reference models based on international standards.

LETSI will have its first meeting in conjunction with the ISO SC36 meeting in London in March.

AICC XML: On-demand Communication for Advanced Content

Shota Aki & Dori Abele - SkillSoft

Shota was present at the meeting while Dori contributed via telephone and the SkillSoft Dialogue Live Web tool.

Dori made a presentation describing content trends and then Shota described the CMI XML Use Case. The XML Use Case showed how the content of the AICC XML communication data from one or more lessons helps to support the OLSA (Open Learning Services Architecture) system that SkillSoft is developing.

Wednesday 7 Feb 07

Automated Sorting of Performance In a Freeplay Simulation

Henry Ryng, inXsol

Henry's presentation used a simulation inXsol built for the New York Fire Department as an example to describe his scoring approach.

His presentation also describes the technologies behind the simulation (voice recognition, speech synthesis, etc).

LCMS Selection Process at Northwest Airlines

Neil Cramer, NWA

Neil's presentation covers the Current Landscape, Selection Process, What to Look For and ROI for LCMS (Learning Content Management System). Neil's presentation is accompanied by detailed spreadsheets that include LCMS criteria and ROI projections.

Integration of UPS Creative Media into Flight and Maintenance Training

Ray Butler, Mike Lee, Wes McDermitt: UPS

This is the 100 th year anniversary of UPS.

Ray's part of the presentation described the company and its priority - package delivery.

Mike Lee heads the Creative Media group which is not a part of flight or maintenance training, even though it does create training products for both flight and maintenance. The group does graphics, video, multimedia, and Web products. Mike's part of the presentation covered the organization and functions of the Creative Media group.

Wes' part of the presentation described the tools used and a number of examples of the Creative Media group output.

Opening the Ground or Why Care About Services Oriented Architectures

Steven Forth, eMonitor

Steven's presentation covered an overview of eMonitor and discussed the role of web services in enabling training solutions. Steven then provided an update of progress in WSIL.

Supporting Experiential Training with Web Services

Ginny Travers, BBN Technologies

Ginny's presentation provided and overview of BBN and then discussed a simulation training project using Web Services. The main body of the presentation is on the implementation of simulation based training using web services to work with the SCORM runtime environment.

Thursday 8 Feb 07

Smart Graphics and Haptic Feedback

Kris Rockwell

Kris's presentation discussed the value of haptic feedback in training and how his company is prototyping a virtual reality cockpit with haptic feedback.

Smart Graphics Subcommittee

Kris Rockwell, Chairman

The AICC Smart Graphics standard has not progressed in the last 4 years. Let's consider saying that this may be a good time to dissolve the smart graphics committee and move our efforts elsewhere.

Neil suggested we continue this discussion in the Executive Committee Strategic Planning session.

S1000D/SCORM Redundancy Analysis

Mark Scansen, EEDO Knowledgeware

Mark presented the S1000D/SCORM Redundancy Analysis and Conversion Guidelines Final Report.

The executive summary states that technical source content was written in a way that was inappropriate for reuse as training content.

Training requires greater granularity in source data than needed by technical documentation.

The report’s ultimate recommendation is that SCORM and S1000D should both be revised. They are not complementary and do not work well together now.