As we all know, SCORM is a standard for online learning.
Communication is very important in teaching. We all encourage students to discuss any problems they encounter. If the students do not tell their teacher about a difficulty, s/he might assume that all students understood the topic/ lesson very well when the story might be all different. That is why communication and keeping track of the students’ progress is important.
A SCORM course is equivalent to a good teacher. A SCORM course has its lesson plans, knows its students, knows the names of the students, tracks students’ progress, tracks what a particular student studied, what has been revised and even the students’ marks – whether a pass or a fail has been obtained.
Therefore, a SCORM course is the same as a teacher since all the activities that are carried out by a teacher are carried out by it. Moreover, this type of course can make sure that to start lesson 2, lesson 1 has to be understood.
An advantage of SCORM is that the learner has freedom on how to use it. Moreover, the content can be shared with others and the students/ learners can be at any school.
In my opinion, a SCORM course is like a ‘digital’ teacher. Both the teacher and the learner benefit from it.
For further detail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzxNwWvmwf4
Sarah the link you provided is a very good one in order to explain SCORM. In your blog Sarah you mentioned about SCORM course but this video also explains the idea of SCORM. I wish to mention some key points mentioned during the video about what is SCORM.
ReplyDeleteSCORM is a standard for online learning and is a basic set of assumptions that allow courses and LMS to communicate. The meaning of SCORM lies in its acronym itself since it stands for sharable content object reference model. In a SCORM course it can have a number of lessons (objects) and since they are based on standards it is easy to re-use lessons to another course. In return lessons packed with instructions are understood by Learning Management System (LMS).
When teachers use SCORM in order to build an online course, not only one is following the basic standards but it also helps in reusability and other advantages as you standed and as Gianella mentioned in her post “SCORM capabilities and advantages ”.