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AICC Meeting in Hamburg, Germany June 2008, Hosted by Airbus Meeting Notes 6/16 Airbus welcome - Thorsten Behrendt The Hamburg training center is for maintenance only. CMI Working Group – Bill McDonald Background on CMI and CSA presented by Bill. John Alonzo presentation on CSA. John works for OutStart. John covered some CSA background, including goals. Currently standards are implemented a little differently by different groups, and this compromises interoperability. CSA is trying to solve some of these interoperability problems. Whatever is done by CSA, one of the main goals is backward compatibility. How far along is the development of the spec? It is in the conceptual evaluation stage. The Working Group (WG) is looking at use cases. Current technology standards do not encode digital rights management. If content exists on a server, it might be possible to deliver, but not legal to deliver. That problem has not been addressed. What is the status of the IP document? We have not moved forward on that. Management and Processes – Bruce Perrin, Boeing Report on the subcommittee. This subcommittee is to: Provide recommendations and guidelines to the Computer-based Training community that identifies the attributes of Good CBT processes and product. Research on virtual environments by Boeing. People loved the training based on virtual environments. But nothing was learned compared to lectures or simple CBT. So we cannot equate student reaction measures to learning. Learning measures do not necessarily correlate to transfer to job performance. What can the AICC do? Develop guidelines and recommendations for evaluation of training. Industry Affairs Subcommittee – Ray Butler, UPS Ray discussed happened at the WATS convention/symposium. The WATS sponsor has annual world symposiums and regional symposiums as well. The AICC presented at the meeting. The purpose of the AICC presentation was to inform, educate, and remind attendees of the valuable service AICC provides to the industry, and create new interest in the AICC. Airline issues raised at WATS
Training Technology Subcommittee – Eloi Chabaud Eloi discussed two problems: the LMS cross domain problem and use of disconnected LMS – sometimes known as mobile or nomadic computing. AICC Content Packaging – Jack Hyde Jack described an approach to building an XML file that contains all the information currently found in the 7 files described in the CMI Guidelines as course structure files. In addition, Jack’s approach adds information on metadata, and information necessary to enable the file to also be used as a content manifest. The structure Jack described is based on the SCORM 1.1 Content Aggregation Model. Executive Committee Meeting LETSI has made a call for white papers to define requirements and desires. The AICC will probably submit a paper to identify some of our concerns. There was a YES vote to change the name and charter of the Smart Graphics Subcommittee to the Graphics and Interactions Technology Subcommittee. Kriss Rockwell will chair the new committee. The AICC is looking for ways to celebrate our 20 th anniversary at the September meeting in Louisville. 6/17 Exec Committee Report – Tom King Tom reported on the committee meeting and his report includes a listing of upcoming meetings, both tentative and firm. Update to AICC Communications group – Tom King The AICC is now on Facebook and Linkedin. Review of Authorware End-of-life Discussions and Future Work – Tom King Tom’s presentation reviews Adobe’s decision and what is happening. Adobe has a 6 point plan Business continuity Conversion Migration Next generation applications Enablement Community communication Tom’s presentation amplifies each of these points. European Institute for ELearning: Extended PENS Work – Marc Van Collie This organization has been working with PENS. They have had European plugfests verifying PENS interoperability. As a result of working with PENS, they recommend additional commands – delete, deactivate, reactivate. There was discussion as to the advisability of having the content provider have such control over the content delivery. Also discussed was a revise command and adding a course ID to the data model in PENS. Several changes/augmentation to PENS are recommended at the end of the presentation. Coordination of S1000D and SCORM – Wayne Gafford Wayne’s presentation describes how S1000D XML tagging may be used to describe training. Training related tags and terms have been developed for this specific type of S1000D documentation. The result is the ability to create a detailed training description in XML that may be used for instruction. These S1000D training files have the tracking and updating capabilities that make S1000D documents so popular. EPortfolio Interoperability – Marc Van Collie Marc’s presentation describes some e-portfolio capabilities and what is being done to standardize them. Standards Body Work Updates – Tyde Richards Tyde’s presentation describes what is happening at the ADL, LETSI, and IEEE. 6/18 Airbus Maintenance Courseware – Eloi Chabaud The tools described in this presentation were first used for the A300=600. The principle of Airbus training development is “single source, multiple usages.” The base document is called a “module draft” and a number of other documents including training are derived. Eloi demonstrated the use of Microsoft Word to modify the module draft and generate other documents from it. Airbus Flight Courseware Development – Frederic Baudin Airbus is using synthesized voice for the courses.The synthesis software is very impressive in its naturalness. Acapela is the company that furnishes the synthesis software. PowerPoint is used as a development tool and a drafting tool. The PowerPoint files are converted to HTML for delivery. Frederic also described Airbus’s use of smart graphics. One training program went from over 1000 dumb graphics to less than 200 smart graphics to cover the same training. Frederic demonstrated how you can modify smart graphics in a course one at a time, or several at once. E_Learning at Austrian Airlines – Herbert Schwarz Herbert’s presentation discussed the use of avatars in training. The avatar had to be customized to reflect the culture of the airline. The name was also very important. The age should also be approximately the same age as the audience. And finally the avatar has to have a personality. The avatar also uses body language. e-Learning at Aeroflot – Olga Chashina & Vitaly Chashchin Olga’s presentation described the development of on-line refresher training at Aeroflot. The Airbus LMS is being used for this. There are 4 to 5 thousand users of the system. Vitaly described the point of view of the contractor on this project. He showed the way in which the data bases, and LMS worked to get the student data on the refresher training. Eurocontroland institute of Air Navigation Services (IANS) – David Raymond David provided a brief overview of the business case for content development. One focus of Eurocontrol is to harmonize air traffic control for all of Europe. David discussed developing e-Learning courses for European airlines. Eurocontrol also provides ab-initio training for air traffic control. David used the CSA use case matrix to describe the organization and delivery of their courseware. 6/19 Integrating Virtual World Simulations Using AICC and SCORM into Learning Content – John Alonso John demonstrated a virtual world where the environment was a restaurant and the objective was to do a safety check in that restaurant. His described that there was a challenge in getting information out of a simulation in a SCORM or AICC communication to an LMS. The data model can indeed handle the information from the simulation/virtual world, but it is not intuitively obvious to the implementers of these virtual worlds for training. John described a scenario where the SCORM data model handles the info needed to judge student performance in a virtual world. Microsoft ESP as a Revolutionary Aviation Training Platform – Scott Andersen ESP is a visual simulation platform – emphasis on platform. Data in ESP includes DEM, Landclass, Vectors, World, Autogen, Objects, Facilities data, Vehicle Simulation, AI Paths and waypoints, Triggers, After Action Review. These are all described in Scott’s presentation. He described missions and structured experiences. ESP supports multi-role players in the world and supports a shared cockpit. Scott described different levels supported by ESP Level 1 is just one or more computers sharing the world Level 2 connects the computer to some hardware (like an FMS CDU for instance. Level 3, connects to a flight deck with varying degrees of hardware fidelity Level 4 uses one or more flat screen displays to replicate the instruments and their location in the cockpit. Level 5 is a full flight simulator connected to ESP. Some sim makers are using ESP to generate the out the window cockpit view. The following web site has all sorts of information about ESP A Unified Training Environment: Group and Individual Training in the Forterra OLIVE Virtual World – The J-ADL SCORM Virtual World Integration Project – Dick Davies Dick first showed a virtual Bagdad used for training American troops before going to Iraq. Then Dick showed a multi player multi team virtual world used for training first responders to an accident scene. He also showed the virtual world being used to support real time collaboration from people in different locations. He then showed how his company worked to integrate SCORM training packages (SCOs) into these virtual worlds and report out student performance in the SCOs. A320 Trouble Shooting Exercise Using a 2D Training Device – Garvan Moore Garven took the attendees to an airbus classroom where he demonstrated the desktop simulation used to enable trouble shooting exercises for a maintenance training class. SC36 Meeting Report and What is Happening – Jack Hyde Jack recently participated in the SC36 meetings in Korea. Because many of the working groups meet at the same time, he was only able to attend sessions on Working Group (WG) 2 (collaboration), WG 5 (quality) and WG 4 (metadata). Most of his presentation and discussion was on metadata and the progress being made in that group. Jack’s presentation also discusses some of the other happenings in the SC36 outside the realm of the working groups. There was some discussion of the value to the AICC of participating in SC 36. |
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