Comments on: SCORM, standards in e-learning, and the groceries truck

By: Deloise Stautz

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By: Carmen

Carmen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:35:16 +0000

While the limits SCORM could possibly impose on designing instruction are real, I must agree with Stacy that there is something to be said about having a standard. Being in compliance may allow your instruction to reach a larger audience and take away some of the headache of worrying about transferring your instruction to a new LMS or platform. I am looking at this from a developer’s point of view and have not previously considered how learning may be impacted. I think their is always some backlash to standardization (think IEEE), but eventually we learn to get creative within the limits..

Thanks, Fede, for tackling this issue. I am sure there is a lot more discussion to come!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:10:28 +0000

Federico,

This post is helpful as I am creating module prototypes for a class project. The modules will need to be placed in a course management system that is, of course, SCORM compliant. I have not had prior dealings with SCORM. Mainly because I’ve used other ways to collect data when creating instructional units; however, I came to appreciate what SCORM can do in my initial testings. I created an Adobe Captivate module (which allows SCORM 1.2 and 2004 standards) for an organization that wanted to use Adobe Connect to collect the data from the module. As a test, I changed a few data collection settings in Captivate and added that module to another CMS that used SCORM. The module transferred beautifully and the quiz data was collected the same. There is something to be said about having a standard.

By: Federico

Federico — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:09:22 +0000

I am with you all in the same boat about needing to know more about SCORM. I tried to be objective and present it as a tool useful for certain things but not others. This is what I got after some research. Suha, I agree also about the limitations to design. Still, I can see that a certain “culture of training” based in fast delivery, on-demand/on-need bases, and mainly corporate would welcome SCORM for the possibilities of reusability and fast development. With SCORM, I suspect, once you have developed some training that is SCORM coformant or compliant, that first training probably becomes a template of sorts for future development. I am as idealist as many in aspiring to a better instructional design that takes the necessary time to produce a product of quality. But reality seems to point in the direction that “time” is normally too short for that approach. Seems to me that SCORM provides companies a way to unify and reuse. However, I need to be honest and say that I am afraid this way of working makes designs less unique both in the graphic and content treatment.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:18:26 +0000

After reading your blog, I had to research or learn more about SCORM. By the way, this research was done on the Web which in itself has a set of standards for publishing content. I can probably grasp only the surface of the impact that SCORM may have on eLearning, but can connect with the idea of having specifications whereby content can be transferred or reused across different platforms. In my readings, it was stated that SCORM makes the LMS “smart” in that it knows what is to be delivered to the learner and when (Dodds, 2007).

Dodds, Philip. (2007). SCORM. Retrieved February 15, 2010 from http://adlcommunity.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=458

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:25:37 +0000

Hey Fede,

Thanks for the great post. You have touched on two great topics: SCORM and the the media debate. Your definition of SCORM has helped me understand it, but I agree with Suha in that I think I may need to get my hands on it (or in it) before I truly understand it. I agree with your analogy and position that SCORM could have a serious impact on learning. I had not really considered the impact that SCORM could have on learning so I have (thus far) kind of put it in the background and have not paid much attention to it. Because of this post, I may need to reconsider some of the implications that SCORM could have on learning in the future.

By: Suha

Suha — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:27:14 +0000

Fede,

Thank you for the clarification about SCORM. It helped me get a grasp of it a bit more. I guess, until I get involved in developing a SCORM compliant instructional unit, I will not be able to understand how it really works. However, I agree with you on Clark’s analogy. SCORM may impose certain delimitations on design and I wouldn’t favor that. On the other hand, SCORM may be useful within big organizations where following certain standards in design enables conformity of use and distribution among the learners

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