SCORM Standard Basics

The following points are the basics of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM):

• 1. SCORM aims to standardize how to launch and track directed learning experiences, and to define the intended behavior and logic of complex learning experiences so content can be reused, moved, searched for, and recontexualized.

  2. SCORM enables complex directed learning experiences that go far beyond what can be done with simple hyperlinked web content.

  3. SCORM has three parts:

     1. Content Aggregation Model, which describes how to put learning content together so it can be moved and reused

     2. Run Time Environment, which describes how content is launched and the learner’s progress is tracked and reported back

     3. Sequencing and Navigation, which describes how a SCORM-conformant LMS interprets the sequencing rules expressed by a content developer along with the set of learner-initiated or system-initiated navigation events and their effects on the run-time environment

  4. Packaging defines how learning content of all types can be exchanged between systems in a standardized way.

  5. The “organization” part of packaging is the blueprint for the design of a particular learning experience. It tells an LMS what the designer intended when the learning experience was authored.

  6. The data model standardizes how LMS systems track learners.

  7. Sequencing is crucial to representing complex behaviors of learning experiences in a standardized way. It adds capabilities to the current SCORM specification, but does not change the basic functionality that was there before (except for bug fixes and clarifications.)

Source: http://adlcommunity.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=458

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