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4.1 SCORM Overview
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.
  1. SCORM is an initiative started by the US government
    1. The US Army has a US$700 Million Request for Proposals for training
    2. All proposals to the US Army have to be SCORM conformant
  2. ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) Co-Labs - developer of the SCORM standard
    1. One Lab in Virginia (military/corporate) and one in Madison, Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin (academic)
    2. SCORM hosts "Plug-Fest"s where standards are discussed and products are presented

    1. http://www.adlnet.org
  1. Ideal of SCORM is to produce course content that is reusable
    1. You can take resources from several courses, and let the server put them together at delivery time
    1. Currently, this will create courses that look like a book made up of articles from multiple magazines just stapled together