Implications of SCORM and Emerging E-learning Standards On Engineering Education

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the U.S. Government is unifying elearning specifications emerging from the international standards organizations into a single specification referred to as the Sharable Object Content Reference Model 1,2,3 , or SCORM . Today, this specification is now the de-facto standard for e-learning content developed for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. These standards are stimulating the rapid development of learning repositories. Once deployed, these have the potential of dramatically changing the use of elearning in engineering education and in the continuing education of practicing engineers.