Revisiting SCORM

SCORM works on 2 main principles – as a way to package and sequence learning material, and as a way for learning management systems to track learning activity through a run time interface. It is based on traditional teaching-learning processes and provides additional promises of inter-operability and reuse through standardization of the way courses are organized and presented to [...]

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Common Cartridge – whither SCORM

And hello! What is this IMS GLC Common Cartridge specification? http://www.imsglobal.org/commoncartridge.html Everyone seems to be backing it.  And they promise a common way to port content to all LMS platforms seamlessly. In order to deliver course content for LMS platforms, content providers find they must build, test and distribute their content for each platform. This [...]

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Services for Learning

As part of SCORM, ADL teams have worked on basically how to structure and sequence content to the learner and package it for the learning management system or repositories. However what they have not woked on is a standardized set of learning and collaboration services for SCORM compliant content to come alive.

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Frameworks for Learning

So everything that we formalize needs a frame of reference. The design of these frameworks and models typically defines the boundaries of what can be achieved. Take for example, ADL’s SCORM. Written by experts across industry and standards organizations, SCORM defines a methodology to design and serve learning content.

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