SCORM DEFINITION

SCORM DEFINITION

SCORM is a product of the U.S. Government’s initiative in Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). In November of 1997, the Department of Defense and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched the ADL initiative with goal of providing access to high-quality education and training materials that are easily tailored to individual learner needs and made available whenever and wherever they are needed.

In a nutshell, SCORM is a set of specifications for developing, packaging and delivering high-quality education and training materials whenever and wherever they are needed. SCORM-compliant courses leverage course development investments by ensuring that compliant courses are "RAID:"
Reusable: easily modified and used by different development tools,
Accessible: can be searched and made available as needed by both learners and content developers,
Interoperable: operates across a wide variety of hardware, operating systems and web browsers,
Durable: does not require significant modifications with new versions of system software.
For more information about SCORM please visit ADL website