CMI5 - NEW STANDARD FOR E-LEARNING TOOLS INTEGRATION
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Keywords

cmi5
SCORM
xAPI
LRS
LMS
Moodle

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O. A. Shcherbyna, “CMI5 - NEW STANDARD FOR E-LEARNING TOOLS INTEGRATION”, ITLT, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 355–368, Jun. 2020, doi: 10.33407/itlt.v77i3.2989.

Abstract

Standardization in the field of development of e-learning facilities brings significant effect, allowing the integration of electronic educational resources created for some software environments into others without any changes and modification. Currently, the main standard for integrating e-learning tools is the SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model), created by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative group in 2001, which for many reasons no longer meets the current requirements: it can only work in browser, does not support working with mobile applications in offline mode, etc. Therefore, in 2013, ADL proposed a new xAPI standard that defines the way to collect and store data from the online storage facilities called Learning Record Store (LRS), in the form of competencies of individuals within their formal, non-formal and informal lifelong education. However, this standard was not able to replace SCORM due to its excessive flexibility. In order to overcome this ADL disadvantage, in 2016, a separate profile of the xAPI specification, called cmi5, was adopted that more clearly formalizes the interaction between the Learning Content Assignable Unit (AU), the LRS, and the Learning Management System (LMS). The article analyzes the differences between the new cmi5 standard from its predecessors - SCORM and xAPI; an up-to-date list of software tools supporting cmi5 is presented; tested cmi5 in the iSpring Suite e-Course and the cloud-based SCORM Cloud learning management system. A comparative analysis of the contents of the SCORM, xAPI, and cmi5 packets, as well as the operators that are written in the LRS when execution is performed. An overview of the plugins for working with SCORM, xAPI and cmi5 in LMS Moodle and their test results are given.

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