SCORM – What is it good for?

What is SCORM?

Sharable

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For online learning - SCORM is the de facto industry standard for interoperability

It’s good for this

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But what about this?

Why is this important?

Without it, sims will always be here

Tens and hundreds of students, not thousands or hundreds of thousands

SCORM and SIMS

Brannigan et al (2012), unpublishedMethod: Structured survey of 51.5 randomly selected immersive training / sims developers and users at I/ITSEC & GameTech conferences

Key Question: What does SCORM mean to you? • a word association task• then Q&A

Key Findings

Don’t Use48

What?40

Complicated

31

Linear25

Simple Scoring

24

Love it2.5

The message is

SCORM, Sims and Serious Results

Interplay Energy

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