SCORM Answered

AICC, SCORM, XML... it all sounds like alphabet soup, right?

Well, we should be paying more attention to what these acronyms mean.

Let's start with SCORM (since it was the first one I found online.)

In a nutshell, SCORM is a set of specifications for developing, packaging and delivering high-quality education and training materials whenever and wherever they are needed. SCORM-compliant courses leverage course development investments by ensuring that compliant courses are "RAID:"

• Reusable: easily modified and used by different development tools,
• Accessible: can be searched and made available as needed by both learners and content developers,
• Interoperable: operates across a wide variety of hardware, operating systems and web browsers, and
• Durable: does not require significant modifications with new versions of system software.

For more information, you can take an online course. Click on the "Lessons" menu item and follow the steps to register -- it's free.

This lesson discusses:

• The history, goals and current organization of ADL,
• The rationale for the SCORM specification (why do we need this),
• The alphabet soup of this world (the acronyms), and
• The ADL guidelines for developing online content.