Academic Co-Lab News

Our May 2009 SCORM School 201 was at capacity and, to address demand before the next regularly scheduled 201 (August), we are adding a July class. Please see our SCORM Training page for more information about our online courses.

As a service to the community, the Annual GLS Conference is happy to announce that the Thursday June 11, 2009 evening keynote by author Julian Dibbell will be open to the public in the Union Theater on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The time is 7:00pm to 8:30pm and seating is available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

For information on this keynote address, please see:

http://www.glsconference.org/2009/program/event/5

Please see http://www.glsconference.org to register for the rest of this year's exciting event!

June 2009 Online SCORM School 301: Now Enrolling

Our SCORM School 301: Content Sequencing is now enrolling students for the June 2009 session. The course is taught completely online and runs for four weeks.

For more information, please see our SCORM School page.

GLS 5.0 is drawing closer and this year will be bigger and better than ever. Session proposals submissions are up 22% over last year's record. Due to this increase in proposal submissions, the review committee needed extra time to give each one the attention it deserved.

Notifications are going out this week to everyone who submitted a proposal. To make sure all presenters can register at the early bird rate, the deadline has been extended from May 1 to May 8, 2009.

This delay is great for two reasons: 1) the quality of presentations will be the best it has ever been and 2) you have one more week to squeeze those travel requisitions in and still save a bundle!

For all conference information, see http://www.glsconference.org

For those who attended Rovy Branon's speaking engagement at the Wisconsin Charter School event April 20, 2009, the links, videos, and other elements of his presentation can now be found on his blog: http://www.situativity.org

Details on the 2nd Annual AcademicFest conference will be available soon at the official conference web site. Mark September 15-16, 2009 for a trip to Madison to interact with leaders in advanced learning technology from around the world.

Last year's conference was a huge success and we look forward to seeing everyone at a new expanded event in 2009!

There are still limited slots open for the May 2009 online SCORM School 201 class.

Please see the SCORM School page for more information.

Be sure to take advantage of the earlybird prices for the Games, Learning, and Society (GLS) 5.0 conference. Registrations are up for the conference, now in its fifth year.

Earlybird ends April 30, 2009!

See the registration page to reserve your spot at the conference.

ADL announced the official release of SCORM® 2004 4th Edition on March 31, 2009.

Useful links:
DoD Press Release
ADL SCORM 4th Edition Overview and download page
List of Certified SCORM compliant products (new web URL for this product listing)
Wisconsin Testing Organization

The AADLC offers SCORM training courses to help people learn the basics of the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). We currently have three courses available: SCORM School 101, which is a free self-paced course, our introductory online instructor-led SCORM School 201, and content sequencing in SCORM School 301. ...more >>