SCORM

MOHAMAD RIDHWAN BIN MOHD FUDZI (12BT01025)

MOHAMAD ISHAK BIN TOGIMIN (12BT01023)

SCORM – suit of eLearning

• Sharable Content Object Reference Model

• SCORM is a collection of standards and specifications adapted from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive suite of e-learning capabilities that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning content.

• SCORM is a brain child of ADL.

What is evolve in it?• Key Benefits:

o Allows students and educators to scale, share and reuse learning content

o Makes learning content discoverable through interoperability with content repositories

o Enables the development of adaptive learning systems that can assemble content to meet the learner's needs “on the fly“

Technically, it’s currently a specification that includes multiple standards

ADL

• Advanced Distributed Learning or The ADL is the body that manages the SCORM specification.

SCORM Principles• Interoperability:

o The ability to take instructional components developed in one system and use them in another system .

• Accessibility:o The ability to locate and access instructional

components from multiple locations and deliver them to other locations.

•  Reusability:o  The ability to use instructional components in multiple

applications, courses and contexts.

• Durability:o The ability to withstand technology changes over time

without costly redesign, reconfiguration or recoding.

• Maintainability:o The ability to withstand content evolution and changes

without costly redesign, reconfiguration or recoding.

• Adaptability:o The ability to change to satisfy differing user needs.

• SCORM also divides the world of learning technology into functional components.

• The key components are :

o Learning Management Systems ( LMS )o Shareable Content Objects ( SCOs )

SCO 1

SCO 2

SCO 3

LMSLearner’s Computer

Individual SCOs are created

SCOs are assembled into a package with delivery instructions

When a SCOs is delivered, it communicates with the LMS.When it is finished, it informs the LMS and the next one is delivered

An LMS loads the SCOs and delivers them according to instructions

How do you take your aggregation and use it in an

LMS?

Package your content as a Package Interchange Format (PIF) file.

A PIF is just a zip file containing all the web pages, xml data files and other assets contained in your

aggregation.

LMS should provide a way to import the PIF file usually through some sort of web interface.

• An object-based approach for developing and delivering instructional content 

• Interoperability of these objects across multiple delivery environments

• The ability to craft sophisticated learning strategies based on the learner’s mastery and progress

•  The means to package learning content and instructional strategies for import and export

• The means to tag content so it may be found

What's the future look like for SCORM.

• The ADL is working with ISO (International Organization for Standardization) to facilitate adoption of SCORM as a national standard by other countries.

• ADL is exploring ways to open SCORM’s future evolution and maintenance to a proposed International Consortium for Interoperability in eLearning (ICIL) and move it out of the DoD (Department of Defense).

•  Technology enabled learning has tremendous benefits for organizations .

• Traditional classroom training has components that can not be replicated electronically.

• “Teachers will never be replaced by technology - but technology can be a good assistant of teachers”.

• Programs that include both classroom training and eLearning are called “Blended Learning”.

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