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Subject: Results from the ADL DITA-S1000D learning content summit



Dear DITA learning and training content specialization sub-committee  -

On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week (April 10-11, 2007), a group of about 60 instructional designers, content developers, and others involved in creating and delivering learning and training content convene at the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) co-lab in Alexandria, VA for a "S1000D-DITA Training and Learning Subcommittee Summit."

The following members of the DITA learning and training content SC attended: Greg DeVore, Rob Frankland, Robin Sloan, Wayne Gafford, and John Hunt.

This was a very successful and productive event. My thanks go out to Wayne Gafford and Tim Tate of the ADL for all the work they and the ADL staff did to organize and host this event.

For details about the summit, including the participant list, presentations, and workgroup feedback, see http://adlcommunity.net/course/view.php?id=24.

For my summaries of the feedback on each of the six learning topic types, follow the links in the OASIS DITA learning SC wiki -
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningSubcommittee.

Much of the audience came from the US Department of Defense training and instructional design communities. They develop and deliver training for submarine missile systems, officers training and certifications for the Navy, tank weapons systems, and such. An additional group of attendees came from the more general learning and training development communities. Many reported attending the summit specifically to learn and hear more about DITA.

Companies and organizations represented included: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, IBM, U.S. Navy Submarine Learning Center, UNITECH, IDSI, OutStart, PTC/Arbortext, SAIC, D.P. Associates, Avaya, AMSEC, ADL, Progeny Systems Corporation, Imedia.it, Eduworks, Blue Mango Learning Systems, Delex, and Learnitech.

The DITA message resonated strongly with just about everyone in attendance:
With few exceptions, participants agreed on the value of structured XML content for learning and training.

For the bulk of the two days, summit participants divided into five working groups, where they reviewed the phased design plan for DITA learning content. Each group rated each of the six DITA learning topic types, and provided detailed input on the design outlines.

I look forward to further discussion about the detailed feedback on each type, revising our working design outlines, and developing out the working specialized DITA DTD and schemas needed to test these content designs against sample content.

John
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John Hunt
Lotus Education Development
Chair, OASIS DITA learning and training content sub-committee
IBM Software Group/Lotus Software
john_hunt@us.ibm.com


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