Welcome Address from the meeting
host (Lauda Air) Capt. Windbrecktinger
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear
Colleagues,
It is an honour for us as Lauda Air
and Austrian Airline to host this AICC meeting in
Vienna. We are especially proud to be part of this
group, at a time when developments in the elearning
industry outside of aviation are starting to
recognize the AICC as a standard. It makes me smile
nowadays when I mention the words AICC and elearning
together in one sentence. Years ago, when we in the
airlines training departments talked about CBT
standards, a lot of people did not know what we were
talking about. Now they are starting to sit up and
take notice.
I have to admit, I, myself, am not
a computer or an elearning expert, but after having
my colleague, Capt. Herbert Schwarz, who is an expert
in this field, in our team, we are convinced of the
importance and potential impact of advanced learning
and training technologies.
We pilots tend to live in our own
world, the world of Flight Crew Training. But
airlines and much more the entire aviation industry
are involved with more than only crew training. As we
at Lauda Air have full Senior Management Support from
our CEO we have been able to look over the fence and
bring other company personnel into the boat. Whether
it is Dispatcher Training, the European Computer
Driving license for office personnel, SAP for the
accountants, soft skills in general or the use of
virtual classrooms. The full impact of elearning
technology can only be utilized when the entire
organization benefits from the advantages of combined
or blended learning.
It is therefore imperative to pick
the right technology for every stage of the learning
curve and ensure that they all complement one another
as effectively as possible. Our primary aim is not
only to reduce the costs of training but rather to
combine cost education benefits with improving
proficiency. This will consequently improve safety
and performance, which in itself will reduce costs -
whether it is in Flight Operations or at the
secretary's desk.
It's a well-known fact that one of
the main advantages of multimedia learning is, its
increased content retention. And content retention is
what actually determines the ROI in our business.
Most of the things we need to know as pilots, we
cannot practice often enough. Therefore just as we
supplement our cockpits with modern technology which
in return generates the demand for advanced training
technologies we should supplement the "human way
of learning" with tools but still respect that
we need to do the learning ourselves.
We therefore hope and look forward
to work together as well as assist this respected
committee as closely as possible in the future. Let
me wish you a successful meeting, and a very
enjoyable and pleasant stay in Vienna.
Capt. Windbrecktinger
Lauda Air
Minutes
In the following notes, and
asterisk (*) preceeds comments on either
presentations or papers that are available on the
AICC web site.
Monday June 24th, 2002
CMI Subcommittee --Jack
Hyde, Consultant, Chair
Reviewed a proposed survey - a compendium of
questions that the group came up with at the last
meeting. Some changes were sugested and made, and it
was decided to put the survey on the AICC web site
with the changes.
*Update on IEEE CMI
Specification -- Tyde Richards, IBM-Lotus
The IEEE has extracted parts of the AICC CMI
specification and is building standards out of those
parts.
One part is the API (application programming
interface) that is defined in Appendix B of the AICC
CMI Guidelines. This API has been made into a
standard which is now going to ballot. The ballot
reveiw process may result in some changes and
clarifications in the standard. The standard may be
approved in 6 months.
The next CMI standard that will go to ballot is the
data model that is extracted from the AICC CMI to
content and content to CMI communication data model.
The document is stil being worked on, but should to
go ballot soon.
The next priority will probably be a standard for the
binding of the API to the data model.
*Draft Specification: LAN
Courseware using Web LMS. -- Ian Wright, Vega
An AGR was proposed. It was passed out. It may be
discussed on the AICC CMI reflector.
During Ian's presentation the following goals were
defined by the group, for an executible that can
bridge the gap between an LMS designed for the Web
and content designed for a LAN.
1. No changes to AU (LAN content)
2. No changes to LMS (Web LMS)
3. Be able to use existing AUs (LAN-based) and
integrate them in a course with web-based content.
4. AICC course structure can be administered
unchanged.
5. Files for the AU have to be locally accessible to
the student's machine (doesn't solve firewall or
authentication problems)
*Recommendations for future
CMI certification. -- Jack Hyde,
Consultant
Presentation on the use of parts of the AICC CMI
specification in other initiatives -- namely the ADL
(Advanced Distributed Learning) and the IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers).
Jack suggested that in part because of the way these
organizations are splitting out the CMI
specification, the AICC should consider offering
separate certification for key parts of the CMI
specification.
Independent Test Lab
Subcommittee -- Bill McDonald, FSB, Chair.
*Update on Independent Test Lab (ITL) status.
Currently there are 593 registered users of the test
suite
Currently there are 303 registered users for the AICC
sample lesson
The ADL test suite to test HACP should be available
soon.
LMS test plan - how do we move forward?
current test suite is HACP and minimum compliance
only.
Current AICC course structure is tested to minimum
compliance.
Three levels of compliance (in the future) were
proposed by the group
Level A: Current AICC minimum recommended features.
Level B: AICC minimum plus all the additional
features in the AICC spec that were adapted by the
ADL and repeated in the SCORM (Sharable Content
Object Reference Model)
Level C: Everything in the AICC Specification.
It was also suggested that a different term than
Levels be used to describe these levels of compliance
(No new term suggested however).
DELS Subcommittee --
Bernard Bouyt, Airbus, Chair.
*Meta Data for Aviation Training.
The latest white paper, issue 7, June 2002
is on the AICC web site now.
Reflector will be established to review metadata.
Currently have a list of data usefull to the aviaion
industry mapped into the LOM metadata standard.
Reflector participants will evaluate and comment on
mapping.
Executive Committee Meeting
Attendees were:
Neil Cramer, NWA
Bill McDonald, FSB
Anne Montgomery, AICC
Jack Hyde, AICC
Ian Wright, Vega Group
Bernard Bouyte, Airbus
Tom King, Macromedia
Tyde Richards, IBM-Lotus
Mike Sharp, Honeywell
Jean-Louis Bravo, Airbus
Current financial status of AICC is
sound.
The AICC has lost its current treasurer (Mike Medley)
who no longer works for FSB. The Executive committee
voted unanimously to elect Bill McDonald as interim
Treasurer to serve until the next election.
Executive committee solicits nominations for next
election. Nominees will be announced (and any
additional individuals may be nominated) in the
September meeting. The election will take place in
the February 2003 meeting. Positions to be filled
are:
Airline member at large (2)
Vendor member at large (2)
Manufacturer member at large (2)
Treasurer
Chairman
Future meetings:
September 16 - 20, 2002 in
Montreal hosted by SimGraph.
February 3 - 7, 2003 in Miami hosted by FSB.
June 23 - 27, 2003 in Minneapolis hosted by
Northwest Airlines
September 29 - October 3, 2003 in Toulouse hosted
by Airbus
Strategic direction meeting for
executive subcommittee will be held in Montreal in
September for half a day. Possible subjects for that
meeting may include the following:
Training on CMI specifications
Products or aids for airlines to help use the
specifications
Tuesday June 25th, 2002
Courseware Management and
Processes Subcommittee -- Yvonne Johnson, Boeing,
Chair
*Updated AICC Glossary -- Anne Montgomery, AICC
Anne presented the new glossary. A list of terms that
appear in the new glossary was passed out and
individuals at the meeting added new terms they felt
should be added to the glossary, and crossed out
terms they felt should be removed.
The specific definitions in the glossary may be
discussed on the AICC reflector. The current form of
the glossary is a spreadsheet format with as many as
4 different definitions (different sources) appearing
for each term. The final format will probably contain
a single definition for most terms, with an
alternative definition if significantly different
from the base definition.
*ADL Advanced Distributed
Learning) and SCORM (Shareable Content Reference
Model) presentation
Tyde Richards, IBM-Lotus and Claude Ostyn,
Click2Learn
Presentation discusses current status and direction
of the ADL and its documents.
*Update to NWA Shareable
Shell/Content Models Using Flash -- Neil Cramer, NWA
Discusses building the systems training for pilots at
NW.
*SCO Working Group: Use
Cases for Sharable Content Objects -- Anne
Montgomery, AICC
Discusses three approaches to building SCOs
(Shareable Content Objects)
*Macromedia Product
Introduction -- Tom King, Macromedia
Tom announced the introduction of Macromedia MX, a
product suite for developing "rich internet
applications." The suite includes Flash,
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and FreeHand.
Wednesday June 26th, 2002
*Lufthansa Flight
Training's Web-Based Training Experience
Rubin Siddique, Lufthansa and Karlheiz Buhl, INTEC
Lufthansa performed a beta test of their Web-based
training. The presentation shows some of the results
of this test and discusses some of the issues in
performaing training over the web.
*WTDS - Web Training
Development System
Karlheiz Buhl from INTEC
Presentation discusses the training development
system.
*Commercial Web-based
Training Portal
Kognita www.site4learning.com
Len Perkin & John Douglas
ASP model LMS (Learning Management System) and CMS
(Content Management System) and content market place
and consultancy and administrative services
Christian Kohler
Austrian Airlines director of pilot training
1957 Austrian Airlines was founded. Now owns all
major airlines in Austria. Tyrolean and Lauda most
recent acquisitions.
Austrian Airlines Group now has
a need for training 10,000 users via the Web.
All pilots have notebook computers and get CBT
training on their notebooks.
Working on a common platform for all Austrian
Airlines:
Virtual classrooms (voice over IP)
LMS
Knowledge management
*Dynamic Content Using
Flash and Active Server Pages
Colleen Fuhs & Ryan Mizusaki & Erika Gwilt,
NWA
Data-base driven web development tool. Includes a
measure of interactivity.
Training Technology
Subcommittee
Jean-Louis Bravo, Airbus, Chair
*.NET - make the internet the operating system?
Common Language Runtime
(CLR)
Demonstration of a .NET application by Bruce
DeNise, NWA
Thursday, 27 June 26th,
2002
*JAR-STD (Synthetic
Training Devices) and Simulator Definitions
Lars Gran, Braathens
How Braathens does the certification of simulators
and training equipment.
Description of JAR-STD working group activities.
Current JAR-STD family
JAR-STD 1A - Flight simulators: 4 levels (A - D)
JAR-STD 2A - Flight Traiing Devices: 2 levels
JAR-STD 3A - Flight & Nav Procedures Trainers: 2
levels
JAR-STD 4A - Basic Instrument Training Devices: 1
level (screen-based simulations)
*New Product News: Aspen
and Toolbook Update
Claude Ostyn click2learn
Three core applications in Aspen: Learning
management, learning content management, virtual
classroom
Optional modules: collaboration center, personalized
delivery, information management, performance mgmt,
simulation editor, auditing
Smart Graphics Subcommittee
--Jack Hyde, AICC, co-chair
*Component Based CBT -- Ian Wright, Vega Group
Elements of component software
engineering standards
interfaces
naming
metadata
interoperability
customisation
composition
evolution support
packaging for deployment
Redefine smart graphics as AICC CBT
components (ACCM)
Establish the simulatin model as a separate AICC CBT
simulation model
Use expertise and experience of other groups
Develop separate guidelines appropriate to both ACCM
and ACSM
Some questions and comments during
discussion:
Do we need naming conventions?
There is a packaging spec and a metadata spec, so
we should focus on interfaces.
Maybe we should look for a community of practice
to adopt their conventions.
How you represent things is not suggested here.
Need to do that.
Providing a way of documenting interfaces,
interoperability, etc woould be of value.
Need an object registry to discover how to
interact with a component.
We already have a component model in the Windows
platform - COM.
COM is a vendor proprietary approach.
UDDI can solve our problems.
*CMI Maintenance -- Bill
McDonald, FSB
Discussion occurred after short
presentation. Objectives for maintenance discussed:
Reduce variation in LMS/content
Reduce size of document
Partition to enable a later break into multiple
documents
Harmonize doc and test suite
Centralize definitions/data models
Merge appendicies into main document
Collect issues and fix the problems
Harmonize with IEEE standard
Improve the usability of the document
Timely update
The following approach to updating
was decided upon:
These activities should occur
before the next meeting. Timely update is
critical.
Assemble issues
Discuss issue list via email/reflector
Outline reorganization of the document
Discuss outline reorganization via
email/reflector
Meeting was adjourned.
Meeting
Attendees
| (first)
Name |
(last)
Name |
Organization |
Phone |
| Mark |
Andrews |
UAL |
+1-303-780-5239 |
| Herbert |
Anzengruber |
Aeronautx |
+43 (0)2622 84257 11 |
| Johannes |
Bachler |
Lauda Air |
+43 (0)664 2536296 |
| Bernard |
Bouyt |
Airbus |
+33 (0) 561 92 21 39 |
| Jean-Louis |
Bravo |
Airbus |
+33 (0) 561 93 20 44 |
| Don |
Cosner |
Northwest Airlines |
|
| Neil |
Cramer |
Northwest Airlines |
+1-612 726-8814 |
| Bruce |
DeNise |
Northwest Airlines |
+1-612 727-0961 |
| John |
Douglas |
Kognita |
|
| Colleen |
Fuhs |
Northwest Airlines |
+1-612 727-4755 |
| Lars |
Gran |
Braathans |
|
| Erika |
Gwilt |
Northwest Airlines |
+1-612-727-0133 |
| Jack Q. |
Hyde |
AICC |
+1-253 839-4549 |
| Enzo |
Iodice |
Bipop Carire |
+39 335 7777096 |
| Kari |
Itkonen |
Finnair |
358 9818 4751 |
| Tom |
King |
Macromedia |
253 856-2799 |
| Wolfgang |
Lachinger |
Aeronautx |
+43 (0)2622 84257 10 |
| Phongsakdi |
Mahaprueksarattana |
Thai Airways |
|
| William A. |
McDonald |
FlightSafety Boeing |
206 662-8485 |
| Jan |
Miskovsky |
Czech Airlines |
4202 20112698 |
| Ryan |
Mizusaki |
Northwest Airlines |
612 727-4188 |
| Anne |
Montgomery |
AICC |
505 526-2582 |
| Claude |
Ostyn |
click2learn |
425 637-1562 |
| Len |
Perkins |
Kognita AS |
+44 1780 758510 |
| Mark P. |
Pfeiffer |
Avitech Aviation Management
Technologies GmbH |
+43 6764312000 +43 1 505 6333 - 0
|
| Kris |
Rockwell |
US Airways |
412 747-1661 |
| Dave |
Ruddy |
Northwest Airlines |
+1-612-727-7923 |
| Herbert |
Schwarz |
Lauda Air |
|
| Michael |
Sharp |
Honeywell |
602 436-2830 |
| Rubin |
Siddique |
Lufthansa Flight Training |
+49-69-696-93112 |
| Raul |
Sosa Riera |
Iberia |
|
| Pavel |
Sruma |
CSA-Czech Airlines |
4202 20112345 |
| Jacques |
Talvard |
Airbus |
|
| Richards |
Tyde |
Lotus-IBM |
760 451-0324 |
| Rob |
Watson |
MAS Corp |
425-415-9361 |
| Ian |
Wright |
Vega Group PLC |
44 (0) 208 230 4050 |
| Kim |
Zandwijken |
Braathens |
47 67 59 74 17 |
| Maurizio |
Feruglio |
Bipop-Carire |
+393496430816 |
| Cornelia |
Aichner |
Lauda Air |
+43 17000 78201 |
| Thomas |
knapil |
Lauda Air |
|
| Capt. |
Windbrecktinger |
Lauda Air |
|
| Erling |
Mangnes |
Braathens |
+47 67597026 |
| Werner |
Putzhuber |
Hyperwave |
|
| Frank |
Herrmann |
Banhaus-University Weimar |
|
| Petri |
Louhivuori |
Finnair |
|
| Ralf |
Pfetzing |
Lufthansa Flight Training |
+49-69-696-72439 |
| Micheal |
Zink |
INTEC Gmbh |
+49 (089) 9508020 |
| Modi |
Mehul |
INTEC Gmbh |
+49 (089) 9508020 |
| Sunil |
Kapoor |
INTEC Gmbh |
+49 (089) 9508020 |
| Karlheinz |
Buhl |
INTEC Gmbh |
+49 (089) 9508020 |
| Jürgen |
Hôlfing |
SOLVEE |
(0) 911-535477 |
