Call for Participation: New CSA Initiative to Use Web Service for

The CSA (Content Services Architecture) initiative is a new AICC work group that is developing a set of specifications to drive adoption of interoperable web services to support learning and training. Participation in the CSA work group is open to any organization wishing to join. Note that membership is by company/organization and not by individual.

CSA will specify web services that facilitate integration of hosted content, data and content catalog synchronization between publisher (Content Management) and content consumer systems such as a LMS (learning management system). CSA web services will also support a variety of access control and commerce models to integrate content-as-a-service and LMS-as-a-service capabilities. With CSA specifications, content on different internet domains can work seamlessly with a Learning Management System (LMS) in a different internet domain through web services.

The success of this forward-looking initiative depends on strong participation from the elearning community and the AICC greatly needs your help. If you are a LMS (Learning Management System) vendor, CMS (Content Management System) vendor, content creation tool vendor, or an organization that is a content consumer you are encouraged to get involved. Much preliminary work has been done and preliminary input is already being gathered for initial draft documents. The AICC also hosts a CSA Discussion Forum online as a point for collaboration.

Please contact the AICC at CSA@aicc.org if your organization is interested in joining our team.

Thank you.