Department of Defense is adopting the Activity Streams spec

[Todd Barnard]

Hi folks!

A quick bit that I thought was newsworthy - Department of Defense is
adopting the Activity Streams spec as part of its Advanced Distributed
Learning Initiative's next generation of SCORM ( code named "Tin
Can" ).

I wrote about it over on G+

http://plus.google.com/107572871207229463900/posts/4f5ocxuTVv4

Note the nice video they made to convey the value.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRJaF9ikhMc

The DoD's uses distributed learning for all three million of its
active military, reserve and civilian personnel, deployed throughout
the world on every continent including Antartica...

How's that for "adoption"?

:)

[Bob Wyman]

This is great news. Of course, if people are going to start publishing Activities that make statements such as "Completed Course of Study" then it would probably make sense to revisit the use of Salmon Magic Signatures with ActivityStreams so that we can construct statements that are more easily copied around the network, traceable to their original authors, can be aggregated into synthetic streams, don't require access to the original stream for validation, etc... 

I imagine, one day, that a "resume" might be composed of a set of signed Activities...

bob wyman

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[Todd Barnard]

If I publish my resume as a Salmon string of signed activities will
you hire me?

:D

On Feb 23, 3:07 pm, Bob Wyman <b...@wyman.us> wrote:
> This is great news. Of course, if people are going to start publishing
> Activities that make statements such as "Completed Course of Study" then it
> would probably make sense to revisit the use of Salmon Magic

> Signatures<http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-magicsig...>with

> ActivityStreams so that we can construct statements that are more
> easily copied around the network, traceable to their original authors, can
> be aggregated into synthetic streams, don't require access to the original
> stream for validation, etc...
>

> I imagine, one day, that *a "resume" might be composed of a set of signed
> Activities...*
>
> bob wyman

[Bob Wyman]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Todd Barnard <roni...@gmail.com> wrote:

If I publish my resume as a Salmon string of signed activities will
you hire me?

I don't hire folk anymore... But, if I did, my decision would be based on the activities or assertions that were in your string of signed activities -- not the mere fact that you had used the format. Nonetheless, I think though that I would tend to trust a signed AS-resume more than I would trust the random, unsigned text blobs that constitute most resumes that I see. If the statement that "Todd Barnard graduated from XXXX" was signed by XXXX, I would be relieved of some of the need to wonder whether I was looking at a mere exercise in creative writing or an accurate account of your past.

bob wyman

[Monica Wilkinson]

This is awesome news posted the great clip on our FB Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Activity-Streams/124019497611812

Also such small world I used SCORM before doing MySpace at SumTotal systems.  I think it was 1.2 back then I should 

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Todd Barnard <roni...@gmail.com> wrote:

If I publish my resume as a Salmon string of signed activities will
you hire me?

On Cloud Foundry and give me a call ;)

 

:D

On Feb 23, 3:07 pm, Bob Wyman <b...@wyman.us> wrote:

> This is great news. Of course, if people are going to start publishing
> Activities that make statements such as "Completed Course of Study" then it
> would probably make sense to revisit the use of Salmon Magic

> Signatures<http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-magicsig...>with

> ActivityStreams so that we can construct statements that are more
> easily copied around the network, traceable to their original authors, can
> be aggregated into synthetic streams, don't require access to the original
> stream for validation, etc...
>

> I imagine, one day, that *a "resume" might be composed of a set of signed
> Activities...*
>
> bob wyman

[Aaron Silvers]

Folks,

My name is Aaron Silvers, and I'm the Community Manager for ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning), the organization that shepherds SCORM and one of the principals involved in moving our direction toward Activity Streams.

There's a lot of information about where this effort is right now at http://scorm.com/tincan.  We're looking at doing the specification work under Open Web Foundation and we're very interested in staying connected with this working group.

We'd love to get your input not only on the spec but also ideas on how to shepherd the work going forward. SCORM, as it *is*, has been very much a spec for a specific domain (online learning). I'd like to see what we're doing find broader adoption with a more diverse set of stakeholders interested in how to grow it.

I'd be happy to (try and) answer any questions you have. I also just wanted to take the opportunity to say hi, we've been incredibly inspired by the Activity Streams work and wanted to let you know.

-a-

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[Mike Rustici]

Hi Everybody,

I've been a lurker on this board for a while now, but I guess it's
time to introduce myself. My company is the one that created Project
Tin Can on behalf of the ADL (DoD). We're really exciting about the
concept of using Activity Streams to capture learning experiences.

The project is entering a phase that will be focused on garnering
adoption and on maturing the specification. Part of that maturity will
involve a tighter harmonization with the Activity Streams spec, so I
expect we will be getting to know each other a lot more soon.

Salmon Magic sounds interesting. We took a different approach for
validating our "asserter", but we definitely have an important
requirement to ensure the validity of statements.

Todd, the adoption of this is going to extend waaaay beyond the 3MM
people in the DoD. SCORM is produced by the DoD, but it is the de
facto standard used by nearly every commercial e-learning system in
the world. Nearly every large company has an online training program
that is SCORM compliant. Tin Can will be the next generation of SCORM,
but it will also broaden its applicability into education. If this
thing flies, 3MM will be a drop in the bucket.

Monica, it really is a small world. The primary investigator on this
project, Ben Clark, used to work at SumTotal as well. He was the main
guy behind their SCORM 2004 implementation.

Looking forward to working with you all.

Mike


Our company: www.scorm.com


On Feb 24, 10:34 am, Monica Wilkinson <monica.kel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is awesome news posted the great clip on our FB Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Activity-Streams/124019497611812

>
> Also such small world I used SCORM before doing MySpace at SumTotal
> systems.  I think it was 1.2 back then I should
>

[Judy Unrein]

Okay, maybe time to stop lurking too. I'm an instructional designer at Nike and have been watching the work going on with activity streams in the learning space (Hi, Mike and Aaron!). I think this has a lot of potential for application in our new environments due to to a new view of the learner as not just someone who completes courses (old SCORM) but as a whole employee -- person, even! ;)

Anyway, appreciate being able to see what's going on behind the scenes. 

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