SCORM becoming irrelevant? ~ eLearning Blog

1/04/2007

SCORM becoming irrelevant?

I had some great discussions with several folks in December of last year.

During one of the discussion Mark mentioned:

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I think that Web 2.0, SAAS, and AJAX have the power to make something like SCORM decreasingly relevant/substantive in a very short while.
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What do you think? Is SCORM becoming increasingly less relevant and will it go the way of the dinosaur shortly? Does this assume that the LMS will also disappear? I found an interesting discussion at Tony Karrer’s blog regarding eLearning 2.0 and the future of the LMS. Many of the people felt that the LMS would not disappear, but this with the advent of Web 2.0 that content management systems would need to change drastically. Is Web 2.0, SAAS and AJAX a natural extension for the new eLearning landscape or will SCORM continue to serve a purpose?

Your thoughts are appreciated!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Er... talking about relevance... in case you don't know, AJAX is just a buzzword that was invented to describe the kind of combination of techniques that SCORM happened to use long before AJAX was coined. SCORM is just a set of standards that enable learning content portability; it does not and was never intended to define eLearning. SCORM conformance is a tool within a large array of things that are useful for eLearning. You might as well ask whether any specialized technology is becoming irrelevant just because you use other technologies as well. Did your car become irrelevant because you can cover longer distances with an airplane?; 3:34 PM
Quintus Joubert said...: Hi Claude,

The title of the post was merely to stimulate responses and I agree with you that SCORM will remain a viable and applicable standard for certain situations. BTW, I like your comparative example.; 9:10 AM

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