SCORM 1.2 combines the AICC API (Appendix B) specification for browser-parent frame communication with the IMS 1.1 (or 1.2) specification for content packaging.
SCORM is an initiative started by the US government
The US Army has a US$700 Million Request for Proposals for training
- All proposals to the US Army have to be SCORM conformant
- ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) Co-Labs - developer of the SCORM standard
- One Lab in Virginia (military/corporate) and one in Madison, Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin (academic)
- SCORM hosts "Plug-Fest"s where standards are discussed and products are presented
- http://www.adlnet.org
- Ideal of SCORM is to produce course content that is reusable
- You can take resources from several courses, and let the server put them together at delivery time
- Currently, this will create courses that look like a book made up of articles from multiple magazines just stapled together