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SCORM: Clarity or Calamity?
Edward Welsch

"The SCORM spec is going to be successful almost by default, but unless all e-learning specifications turn the focus from infrastructure to pedagogical soundness, they are in danger of becoming instructionally irrelevant." So says Thor Anderson, director of developer support at the Instructional Management System Global Learning Consortium (IMS) in Burlington, Mass., and technical editor of two major specifications that went into SCORM, which stands for the Sharable Content Object Reference Model. SCORM—an ironically dry name for something that evokes extremes of passion and frustration within e-learning circles—is already beginning to change vendors' product and service offerings, but will it clarify and strengthen the industry or lead it into disaster?...


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