{"id":30,"date":"2012-07-20T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T00:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:55:43","slug":"what-is-scorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/what-is-scorm\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SCORM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What is SCORM? <\/strong>It is a set of technical standards for<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/what-is-lms\" class=\"broken_link\">e-learning<\/a> software products<\/strong><\/span><\/span>. SCORM tells programmers how to write their code so that it can \u201cplay well\u201d with other e-learning software. It is the de facto industry standard for e-learning interoperability. Specifically, this concept governs how online learning content and Learning Management Systems (LMSs) communicate with each other. SCORM does not speak to instructional design or any other pedagogical concern, it is purely a technical standard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>EXAMPLE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Let\u2019s take DVDs for example. When you buy a new movie on DVD you don\u2019t need to check to see if it works with your brand of DVD player. A regular DVD will play on a Toshiba the same as it will on a Panasonic. That\u2019s because DVD movies are produced using a set of standards. Without these standards a studio releasing a new movie on DVD would have a big problem. They would need to make differently formatted DVDs for each brand of DVD player. This is how online learning used to be before SCORM was created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> The SCORM standard makes sure that all <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>e-learning<\/strong><\/span><\/span> content and LMSs can work with each other, just like the DVD standard makes sure that all DVDs will play in all DVD players. If an LMS is SCORM conformant, it can play any content that is SCORM conformant, and any SCORM conformant content can play in any SCORM conformant LMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The Cost of Content Integration:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But, <strong>what is SCORM?<\/strong> This word stands for \u201cSharable Content Object Reference Model\u201d. It<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> indicates that SCORM is all about creating units of online training material that can be shared across systems. SCORM defines how to create \u201csharable content objects\u201d or \u201cSCOs\u201d that can be reused in different systems and contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> \u201cReference Model\u201d reflects the fact that SCORM isn\u2019t actually a standard. ADL didn\u2019t write SCORM from the ground up. Instead, they noticed that the industry already had many standards that solved part of the problem. SCORM simply references these existing standards and tells developers how to properly use them together.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is SCORM? 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