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I have been asked to keep the ADL responses confidential, and I must abide.
However, I will continue to add some of my opinions here, as I found some people do agree.
But I will further clarify my position.
Firstly. SCORM is more good than bad. All my negativity is centred on the complexity side of SCORM, not the capabilities.
First let's look at the CAM.
Some positives include, you can link to resources anywhere. You can embed one resource into the CAM, but that one resource can link and use external resources. I like it, sounds good.
One of the scenarios I posed in my last post was about the CAM (Content Aggregation Model), where I said
"I think, that the CAM is going to promote larger sets of learning material
rather than smaller e-learning objects, unless a different way is found to
package and disperse learning."
First of all, what I neglected to say (which is true), is that the CAM is quite capable of allowing smallish packages. It is not the technical ability of it that I was on about.
Rather (to clarify), it was the mentality of it's use.
We will probably see large zip files of learning rather than smaller reusable pieces, because it is easier to do so.
For example,
Is it easier to link to external URL's for resources?, probably, but they might not be available at the point of learning.
Is it secure to link to external URL's, given that it may be changed by the publisher, rendering aspects of your course disfunctional or different?
Can you specify which version of the resource you wish to link to?
How large an organization must you be, to warrant a reusable library or learning repository?
How much money will it cost to implement such a storage technique, when you think of all the aspects that it must cater for, such as versioning, context of purpose (language through to audience), scoring context and so on.
Is it not easier to put all your lessons resources into the PIF (zip) file, avoiding these kinds of issues?
The complexity of creating courses will hopefully be alleviated by better authoring tools.
The CAM is a small part of the complexity, but there is at least hope for the CAM.
Too be fair, these problems would exist in all kinds of solutions for the e-learning space.
All that has to be done, is we need to promote reuse and promote "best practices".
Reusable Learning
I will be posting more on various aspects of SCORM. Teaching and hopefully learning from the experience.
Please send me emails with any comments [nospam. jamon -AT- jonathancrossland . c om ]. I will probably move this blog to community server in the near future.
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