SCORM

SCORM: Clarity or Calamity?
Quote: “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.”
Comment: The real value of SCORM will be dictated by how it is adopted at a user level (some good quote from Stephen Lahanas at the end of the article). If instructors and course designers have to become IT professionals to use SCORM, it will fail…miserably.

Good article on the various roles in elearning development: How to Manage the E-Learning Development Team…this model may be very effective in developing larger corporate/academic elearning projects. It isn’t practical for all elearning or for all organizations. Think colleges - hundreds of programs, thousands of courses. Financially impossible to move all courses online (not all will be suited for online…but many will be). A rapid development model (which ensures quality) needs to be developed to make it possible for an average instructor to access resources to help him/her move content online - still using the professionals as outlined in the article listed above…but in a much more informal manner.