thropp, schawn (ctc). “s1000d/scorm progress for training

S1000D/SCORM Progress for Training Support

Acquisition Data Standardization Initiative and the Pathways to Efficiencies

Unpublished work © 2010 Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.

2011 AIA – Joint Service Tech Pubs WorkshopFriday Technical Track

Schawn E. ThroppAdvisor, Technology

Concurrent Technology Corporation

2011 AIA – Joint Services Technical Publications Workshop“Beyond Tech Data - Where Are We Going?"

Agenda

Discussion Agenda

OSD/AT&L - Reduction of Total Ownership Costs (RTOC) Bridge Project Status Update (PoP ends 09-30-2011)

Thoughts on Acquisition Review of Cost Savings Analysis – Institute for Defense Analyses

2011 AIA – Joint Services Technical Publications Workshop

Premise - technical systems information related to documentation, job-task-analysis, training, assessments, etc is managed consistently, coherently and cost-effectively by an integrated set of standards.

Problem Statements

Identified Gaps


RTOC Bridge Project: Core Open Source Tools

S1000D Bridge Application Programming Interface (API)– Enables training development tools access to CSDBs.

S1000D Learning Content Editor: AIM and SCO Workbench– Enables courseware planning and organization;

learning data module creation S1000D Transformation Toolkit

– Converts S1000D LDMs/DMs to SCORM, mobile & PDF S1000D Bridge DM Life Cycle Management Service

– Identifies all LDMs/DMs in a CSDB linked to a system change proposal


S1000D Bridge API

Bridge API

Specified web service-based communication protocol– Expose a set of standard communication protocols for

interface with a CSDB Mgmt System– Any application needing access to S1000D data – our

focus has been learning content authoring tools First draft of specification completed Pursuing submission to OASIS

– (under the PLCS Technical Committee?)


Bridge API

Common general purpose “functions”– Connecting, disconnecting, searching, retrieving

Testing environments– Open Source - SCOWorkbench– Government - Navy’s Authoring Instructional Materials– Industry - Contenta & Corena

Status – Draft complete. In internal review. Public review wanted.


Authoring Instructional Materials (AIM)SCO Workbench

Authoring Instructional Materials (AIM)SCO Workbench

AIM – Navy content planning and instructor-lead training authoring tool (government-owned)– Building support for S1000D authoring

• Courseware structure• Courseware requirements• Courseware objectives

SCO Workbench – Tool for developing SCORM content (open source - http://www.openscorm.org/wiki/)– Building support for S1000D authoring

• Courseware training plans• Courseware content• Courseware assessments

S1000D Transformation Toolkit

S1000D Transformation Toolkit

Open source S1000D Transformation Toolkit Current transformation support

– S1000D SCPM to SCORM 2004 3rd Edition Content Packages– S1000D to Mobile Platform (Android, IPhone)– S1000D SCPM to PDF– Java-based toolkit– Documentation

Status – code and documentation available on SourceForge ( http://s1000d-scorm.sourceforge.net )

Status – Mobile S1000D Bike Course available athttps://s1000dbikemobile.appspot.com


S1000D Bridge DM Life Cycle Management Service

S1000D Bridge DM Life Cycle Management Service

Used to locate all DMs associated with a design change Uses DMRL to create system tree view

– Uses SNS for each node Ability to select any node for targeted DM query Demos at IDSI booth. Location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/s1000dscorm-lcs/

Concept of Operations

Littoral Combat Ship Mission Module Program: All technical publication and training content to be managed in a S1000D CSDB.– Current System– Description of System Change and Justification– Proposed System– Operational Scenarios

Development strategy – write at a high level for broad application

Status – In development


Thinking About Training in Systems Acquisition:

How Training Benefits from an S1000D-oriented Data Acquisition Process



–Milestone A - Materiel Solution Analysis & Technology Development Phases

•Technical Development Strategy -•RFPs – set specific ranking and acceptable performance criteria. •System Performance Specs•Functional Definitions•Failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analysis•Fault Tree Analysis – traceability processes•Reliability Centered Maintenance - •Human Systems Engineering•Life Cycle Sustainment Planning•Key Performance Parameters•Source Selection

•How does S1000D relate to the MS A systems acquisition processes?

Insurance. We can insure that outputs from MS A resulting in technical documentation and training can be insured, managed and protected by S1000D.


– Milestone B – Engineering & Manufacturing Development

• Product Support Plan• System Support & Maintenance Objectives• Critical Design Reviews• Product Support Elements

– Training– Support Data

• Product Support Capability Demonstration

• How does S1000D relate to the MS B systems acquisition processes?

Traceability - Documentation keeps up with developmental testing enabling agile traceability via XML between evolving systems and product support elements.


– Milestone C – Production & Deployment and Operations & Support Phases

• LRIP• Test Results• Configuration Modification• Final Product Baseline• Product Support Packages• Life Cycle Sustainment

• How does S1000D relate to the MS C systems acquisition processes?

Alignment. Ability to make baseline alignments between the configuration of the technical data products to the baseline config of the product design at the point of manufacturing.

S6000T – HSI/TNA

Cost Benefits Analysis Review

The Bridge Project Cost Benefit Analysis ReviewInstitute for Defense Analysis

Link to complete IDA Cost Benefit Analysis:

http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/IDA_ADL_RTOC_S1000D_CBA_July_2010.pdf

bit.ly/lRQrT7


IDA - Cost Benefits Analysis Review

Production of Technical Manuals and Training Courses

Current Processes Bridge

Content management Non-integrated Integrated

OEM data Obtained in parallel Obtained through one contract

Data format Various Common (industry S1000D specification)

Data repository Various Common (CSDBs)

Course developer authoring tools

Various Various, but with Common link to CSDBs (API)

Identification of data requiring modification by ECPs

Various Single tool (Web Service)


Costs– Investment

• personnel cost of project– Implementation

• training tech writers and course developers to use the Bridge• site licenses and user fees to maintain CSDBs

Benefits– Reduction in future cost of technical manuals and training courses– Improvement in shipboard readiness through timely delivery of

information (parametric analysis)


Increased cost (fixed cost)– Drafting new business rules for integration– Converting content to new format and data repository– Altering staff workflows– CSDB seat license and maintenance

Decreased cost (variable cost)– Common data format (S1000D) and repository (Common Source Database)

• Greater efficiency through organization of technical and learning content • Reduces time to collect and process related material• Avoids duplication (acquisition and reuse)

– API (Applications Programming Interface)• Standardized data exchange with CSDBs

– Web Service • Reduced time to search content for ECP-ordered changes• Improvements in readiness (parametric analysis, not presented here)


Driving metric: personnel hours to carry out content development and management tasks.

Estimated reduction in staff hours to produce 1 hour of Navy technical curriculum using Bridge:– From 426 hours to 360: (-66 or 15%)– Types of changes: finding data, sending data, reusing

data.– Table E-1. Content Hours and Courses Delivered by NeL

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Totals

Total instructional hours

1,637 2,196 2,207 4,124 3,322 3,292 16,778

With Bridge 1392 1867 1876 3506 2824 2799 14,264

Less Hours 245 329 331 618 498 493 2516

An finally…A quote

The difference between a good “ restaurant “ and a great “ restaurantis the sum of a lot of little things done well.

“

Fernand Point – Father of modern French Cuisine

Thank you!

Happy Integrating (and Cooking)!

Wayne GaffordOSD/P&R/Advanced Distributed Learning

[email protected] Thropp

Concurrent Technologies [email protected]