The SCORM standard
SCORM; stands for 'Sharable Content Object Reference Model'. It is a a specification for e-learning content that is independent of any given 'Learning Management System' or ' LMS'. It is a widely recognised standard for e-learning used all over the world by many educational institutions.
Advantages
The main advantages are:
- Most LMSs support SCORM;, so SCORM; courses will work on most most LMSs.
- Course content is turned into a collection of 'learning objects' that can used to multiple courses.
- Courses can be accessed over the web, meaning students can participate in them 24/7
- SCORM; courses interact with the LMS, so student's performance can be tracked;
completion, scores, and so on, can all be recorded and reported upon
- You can modify courses as requirements change
SCORM Versions
There are two main versions of the SCORM; standard. SCORM; 1.2 and SCORM; 2004. SCORM; 2004 is the most recent version.
SCORM; 2004 is probably the best way to go. ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) who maintain the SCORM; standard no longer test or maintains SCORM; 1.2. SCORM; 2004 also offers more than SCORM; 1.2.
- What a student can do in a course is often displayed as a series of activities. The student can choose what to do.
- SCORM; 2004 allows you to add rules to the course to guide the student through the course. To change the sequence of
content, navigate from one thing to the next depending on certain criteria and so on. This 'adaptive sequencing' is not available in SCORM; 1.2. Consequently, most many SCORM; 1.2 courses have unique built-in ways of doing this. SCORM; 2004 allows for a more standardised way of doing it.
- SCORM; 2004 has a clearer approach of tracking; tracking multiple learning objectives, scores, and so on. Some information can
even be shared between SCOs via the LMS.
- Interrupted sessions can be resumed more easily in SCORM; 2004 - it has more support for this.
SCORM Services
We can create SCORM; courses from scratch or from exisiting course materials.
Perhaps you have older materials, videos, notes, courseware, html documents, word documents that you would like running as an e-learning course? We can work with all sorts of the media to create quality online e-learning content.
If you have already implemented your content as SCORM; 1.2, we can help migrate it to SCORM; 2004.
- We work to the SCORM; standards where possible
- We convert your materials so that they work with the SCORM; standards
- We can check that it will work with a given LMS and check the SCORM; capabilities
- We make sure your courses are reusable SCORM; learning objects
- We can set up a LMS to run your courses
SCORM Content Conversion
When you convert course materials or old courseware to SCORM;, we can
- Create the right environment for it to run in
- Packaging the course to the SCORM; standard, making sure it will run on the LMS
- Test integration with a given LMS
