AICC

AICC is an e-learning interoperability standard created by the Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee, the organization that pioneered technical specifications for computer-based training in the late 1980s and 1990s. The AICC standard (formally the HACP protocol) defines how training content communicates results — completion, score, time — to a learning management system, and it predates SCORM as the first widely adopted e-learning standard. Its most distinctive technical feature is that content can be hosted on a different server than the LMS and still report tracking data securely across domains, something early SCORM versions handled poorly. The AICC committee officially dissolved in 2014, and the standard is considered legacy today; no new development occurs, and modern projects use SCORM, xAPI, or cmi5 instead. However, AICC support still matters in practice: large enterprises, regulated industries, and government organizations often have older course libraries built to the AICC specification, and an LMS that cannot play AICC content forces expensive content conversion. For that reason, AICC compatibility remains a checklist item in enterprise LMS evaluations, even as its role steadily shrinks.