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Draper, UT – June 19, 2001— Learnframe, the leading developer of KnowledgE-Commerce™ and e-Learning infrastructure technologies, participated in “Plugfest 4,” an event designed to provide ADL partners with the opportunity to synchronize the evolution and convergence of commercial authoring tools, learning management systems and Web-based courses with the evolving open-architecture specification, sponsored by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). Learnframe’s learning management system Pinnacle™ successfully demonstrated its connectivity to the most recent specifications expected to be part of SCORM 1.2.
According to Curt Kanahele, Director of Software Development for Learnframe, the addition of these specifications—IMS Content Packaging and ADL’s Packaging Application Profiles—will enable the industry to package content from different vendors into a single course. “As a group we reached our goal,” said Kanahele. “During the Live Interoperability session, we demonstrated how courses from NETg and SmartForce could be combined into a single package and then managed in an LMS using the proposed specifications.”
Out of nineteen in attendance, Learnframe was one of only three LMS providers to demonstrate this capability. Prior to the Live Interoperability session, Learnframe participated in Plugfest’s interactive “Plug N’ Play” laboratory. In the lab, Learnframe successfully tested seven different courses using the content packaging from five different organizations.
“There were many other courses and systems demonstrating compatibility with SCORM 1.1, but only a handful of companies were prepared for testing interoperability under the proposed new specifications,” said Kanahele. “We were happy to successfully participate in this event in a collaborative effort to advance the e-Learning industry.”
ADL’s purpose in hosting “Plugfest 4” was to advance the initiative on generating common guidelines and specifications for the development, delivery and management of learning on a global scale. Providers of learning management systems (LMS), learning content and authoring tools attended the event to test their learning software for compatibility.
“’Plugfest 4’ provided an excellent opportunity to demonstrate compatibility between content and learner management systems under the latest ADL specifications,” said Brian Rowlett, vice president of engineering for NETg “We are very pleased that NETg and Learnframe are among the few who are poised to meet this latest compatibility specification.”
About Learnframe
Learnframe is the leading provider of KnowledgE-Commerce™ solutions, e-learning infrastructure technologies and services for large and small enterprises, government agencies, learning providers and Internet businesses around the world. It's premiere product Nebo, a Universal
Platform™ and Learning Hub, is easily tailored to business processes through a patent-pending KYSO
Technology™. The combination of Pinnacle, Learnframe's learning management system and e-Learning infrastructure, and the Learnframe Learning Center, an e-commerce front end, defines
KnowledgE-Commerce™ - the point where e-Learning and e-commerce unite. Learnframe customers include Compaq, Rockwell Collins, Supervalu and others.
For more information, please contact Ron Sanders at rsanders@learnframe.com
or 800.738.9800. Visit www.learnframe.com
for product and company details.
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