1. Introduction to ADL and SCORM
- Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative and SCORM
Overview: Historical Perspective.
- Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: Goals and Efforts
- Basic ADL/SCORM Concepts and Definitions
- The Role of SCORM in Modern Courseware Development
2. Courseware Development Today
- Current state and issues of modern courseware development
- Instructional Systems Design (ISD): Basic Principles and Models to Ensure Pedagogically Sound Content
- Course Development Workflow Architecture
3. Modern Courseware Technologies
- Course Development Media: Raw Materials Review:
Images, Audio, Video, Simulations, Mobile Code
- Course Development/Instructional Design Tools Classification Paradigm: How to choose the right tools?
- Courseware Delivery Technologies: Current State, Trends and Issues.
4. Standards in Modern Course Development
- Standards Development: from Needs to Solutions.
- Standards and Organizations involved in modern courseware solutions: IMS, AICC, IEEE, ARIADNE, ALIC
5. The Core Principles of ADL and SCORM
- Accessibility: creating on-demand instructional content
- Adaptability: tailoring instruction to your organizational needs
- Affordability: ensuring the efficiency in instructional delivery
- Durability: keeping your design up-to-date
- Interoperability: making sure that your instructional components can be used across a variety of platforms
- Reusability: showcasing your work in multiple applications and settings
6. SCORM Essentials
- Reusable Learning Objects (RLO): What constitutes Assets and Sharable Content Objects (SCO)?
- Repositories: Melting pots of reusable content
- Learning Management Systems (LMS): How to choose one?
- Expanding your options via a Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
- What is Metadata?
- ADL Registry: discovery of specific content resources
- Defense Instructional Technology Information System (DITIS)
7. SCORM Specifications
- Building the content using Content Aggregation Model (CAM)
- Exploring the specifications of the Runtime Environment (RTE)
- The latest Sequencing and Navigation Techniques
- SCORM Content Packaging: preparing your content for reuse
- What is Metadata Information Model
- SCORM Content Structure: Specifications Review
8. Designing for SCORM
- Creating a SCORM compliant course: a Sample Blueprint
- Key Design Considerations: Breaking down the content without "breaking it"
- SCORM Tools and Development packages: does your software comply?
- Redesigning for SCORM: Things to consider.
- How did they do it? SCORM Implementation Examples
- Service Specific Requirements for SCORM content development
- SCORM Testing and Certification: Let us walk you through the process!
- Support and Resources for the ADL/SCORM community
9. Standards in Modern Course Development
- Conceptual Gaps: What is a Learning Object after all?
- Implementation Challenges and Solutions
- Human Use Factor: Why are people slow to adopt SCORM and what can be done about it
- Sharable Objects and Intellectual Property Issues
10. ADL and SCORM Trends and Implications for the Future
- Content Objects Repositories Discovery and Registration/Resolution (CORDRA)
- ADL Future Directions and Research
- Simulations and HLA
- Gaming
- Performance Support Technology
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- The future of SCORM outside of the military and government use
- Rethinking Instructional Design profession and Management roles
