Presenter Details

Mr. Gafford combines a background in teaching and education with XML-based standards that has resulted in innovative ideas for e-learning content management and data interoperability. For the last three years, Mr. Gafford has lead subcommittees, studies and prototype projects that explore how learning content can benefit from structured markup. Results have lead to an increased awareness that standardized metadata and XML structure can unify diverse, but related content that support common systems, procedures and products. Mr. Gafford has taken his research to the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative where he is now the Deputy Director of the Job Performance Technology Center. He is a member of the DITA and S1000D learning subcommittees, is an active public speaker at S1000D and ADL events, and is a supporter of developing XML schemas that model instructional development and learning content to improve knowledge management and distributed learning.