SCORM: Clarity or Calamity?
Edward Welsch,
Online Learning Magazine,
Aug 02, 2002
This article pulls no punches as it lines up some of SCORM's loudest critics and lets the cannons roar. But what is really surprising is that it took so long for this article to see the light of day: I heard Merrill saying much the same thing at NLII last January and Lahanas has been volumous in his Yahoo group. According to Lahanas, witnessing SCORM's evolution has been akin to "watching an impending train wreck." And I so totally agree with this: "The problem, says Lahanas, is that this standard that was intended to simplify became so complex that no one wanted to use it. 'It has been a colossal failure, with hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in projects that never came back,' he says." I also agree with Merrill's observation on sequencing in that "I don't think that these things are going to happen in code. These are things that are going to happen in the way that we organize content."
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