What is SCORM?
SCORM is an acronym for Shareable Content Object Reference Model. SCORM was developed in response to a United States Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to promote standardization in e-learning. As its name indicates, SCORM aims to provide the specifications necessary to enable content developers with the ability to produce content that is sharable, reuseable, and most importantly interoperable.
Intoweb applies SCORM's system to it's training systems. SCORM offers a set of services that launches learning content, keeps track of learner progress, figures out in what order learning objects are to be delivered, and report student mastery through a learning experience. SCORM enables complex directed learning experience that goes far beyond what can be done with web content that is simply hyperlinked.
SCORM makes use of XML and an API (Application Programming Interface - provided by SCORM) to enable communication between the course and the LMS (Learning Management System). Many LMS vendors make their product SCORM compliant so that it can communicate with any SCORM compliant content in a standardized and consistent manner. Therefore, if a course is SCORM compliant it will be able to be installed and communicate with any SCORM compliant LMS and vice versa.
SCORM contains three parts:
- Overview
About the model, vission and future
- Content Aggregation Model
How to put learning content together so it can be moved and reused.
- Run time environments
How content is launched and the learners progress is tracked and reported back.
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