Standards of distance education scorm. TinCan

SCORM timeline

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  January 1999 — Executive Order 13111 signed tasking the DoD to develop common specifications and standards for e-learning across both federal and private sectors
  
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  January 2000 — SCORM Version 1.0
  
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  January 2001 — SCORM Version 1.1
  
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  October 2001 — SCORM Version 1.2
  
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  January 2004 — SCORM 2004 (1st Edition)
  
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  July 2004 — SCORM 2004 (2nd Edition)
  
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  June 2006 — Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 1322.26 Requiring DoD Use of SCORM
  
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  October 2006 — SCORM 2004 (3rd Edition)
  
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  March 2009 — SCORM 2004 (4th Edition)
  
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  2009 — The first three specification books were adopted as technical reports by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, standard number ISO/IEC TR 29163.
  
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  October 2010 — ADL awards a Broad Agency Announcement to Rustici Software to conduct research and community interviews in an effort to begin the creation of the next generation of SCORM. This is called Project Tin Can.
  
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  September 2011 — The initial draft of the next generation of SCORM (named the Tin Can API) is released.
  
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  June 2012 — .9 version of the Tin Can API is released.
  
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  August 2012 — .95 version of the Tin Can API is released.
  
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  April 2013 — 1.0.0 version of the Tin Can API is released, project name was changed to "Experience API" or xAPI, but many still refer to it as the Tin Can API.
  

SCORM vs The Tin Can API
SCORM is the most widely used e-learning standard. If an LMS is SCORM conformant, then it can play any SCORM content, and conversely any SCORM content can be played in any SCORM conformant LMS. This interoperability makes everybody happy, and saves everyone a lot of time and money.
SCORM has served us well, but it really doesn’t capture the entire picture of e-learning.
Learning is happening everywhere, not just in traditional SCORM courses inside traditional LMSs. The Tin Can API lets you record any learning experience, wherever and however it happens. The Tin Can API gives you the ability to see the whole picture.
We can use TinCan for m-learning (mobile learning). We don’t need to enter the browser.

4 Benefits Of Tin Can API

SCORM will be sufficient for users who just want to deliver and report on relatively simple online courses. As a newer technology, the Tin Can API has a number of advantages.

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