What is SCORM

Whenever I hear the short-hand of today’s topic, I am immediately transported to a Marvel movie. SCORM: Agents of Shield. The Shareable Content Object Reference Model, or SCORM for short, isn’t going to save the city from burning to the ground at the hands of the evil Dr. Ed, but it does have a massive range of uses in the eLearning world. Let’s take a little closer look at how it rocks the EdTech world by ensuring software can communicate!

What exactly is SCORM?

Step into my time machine. We are in the 1990s, and it is the heyday of eLearning as we know it today. If you’re an online learning designer, you will create it for a specific system only. The course won’t run on any other system, and if the organization you designed for decides to change learning management software (LMS), they lose all of their courses, data, and the thousands of dollars spent on creation. Talk about unideal!

The new millennium rolls around, and the US Department of Defense (told you it feels like something out of a Marvel movie) develops SCORM as a technical specification for eLearning courses to comply with. As long as the…