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Date: June 02, 2005

SCORM Best Practices Guide
By Chip Donohue

The Learning Systems Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has published the SCORM Best Practices Guide for Content Developers. SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model, and the guide was created as a service to the eLearning community with the desire to further the adoption of the SCORM guidelines for creating new instructional materials or converting existing instructional materials to SCORM-compliant. The guide provides content developers and instructional designers with a systematic process for using SCORM and tips to make SCORM implementation easier.

For eTeachers who are new to the idea of advanced distributed learning, flexible training options, sharable content objects, assets, metadata, and learning object repositories, the guide provides an excellent introduction and overview to SCORM and the principles of reusability, durability, accessibility, and interoperability.

It is important for early childhood content experts and instructors to understand these ideas so that we can communicate with the instructional designers and content developers and create resources for eLearning that enhance the quality and ways in which training and education are delivered. This is an excellent resource to start learning more about best practices in eLearning.

SCORM Best Practices Guide for Content Developers
http://www.lsal.cmu.edu/lsal/expertise/projects/developersguide/