Accrediting Organizations for E- learning

Computers Articles | August 2, 2007

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The evolution of the Internet and other technologies has led to incredible growth in opportunities to teach and learn, away from the traditional classrooms. The Internet has brought E- learning that offers many advantages: it is convenient, accessible at any time and can be used from nearly anywhere in the world. E- Learning created a number of programs and platforms, but only a few have gained accreditation. The importance of Accreditation is that it sets certain standards by which students, professionals, government bodies, and the general public know that a program or institution provides a quality education. The four main accreditations are AICC, IEEE, ADL and IMS Global Consortium

AICC

The Aviation Industry CBT (Computer-Based Training) Committee –AICC, is an international organization that trains technology-based professionals. The AICC develops guidelines for aviation industry in the development, delivery, and evaluation of Computer-Based Training and web based training technologies 9WBT). AICC has developed guidelines to enable interoperability and provide an open forum for the discussion of CBT and WBT other technologies. These technologies are the basis for many e-learning programs. Its computer-managed instruction (CMI) guidelines have had a great influence on shaping e-learning.

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is an international organization that develops technical standards and recommendations for electrical, electronic, computer and communication systems. The Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) of IEEE provides specifications that address best practices. The most widely accepted is the specification of the Learning Object Metadata (LOM). LOM defines element groups and elements that describe learning resources.

ADL

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative was formed as a developer and implementer of learning technologies across the Department of Defense (DoD). ADL encourages the implementation and advancement of e-learning, to develop the standards, tools and learning content for the learning environment of the future. The most widely established ADL publication is the ADL Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).

IMS Global Consortium

IMS GLC is a global, nonprofit, association that provides in the shaping and growing of learning and educational technology industries through collaborative support of standards, innovation, best practice and recognition of superior learning impact. IMS GLC focuses on the use of metadata to address content packaging; this is used to define how an LMS communicates with back-end applications and content objects. Since it is a non-profit organization many of its standards are made available on its website at no fee.

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Rajesh Rastogi has been managing and maintaining various e-learning softwares projects for the past five years. A storehouse of knowledge about LMS (Learning Management Systems) He has been working in close co-ordination with firm providing e-learning solutions.