SCORM and XML Content The

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SCORM and XML ContentThe Its déjà vu all over
again Perspective

• Tyde Richards

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The CMI-SCORM Core
Processing System
import/export

• Document
• structure
• metadata
• resources

• Content
• data model
• transport

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Cars, Tail-fins, Corvairs, and Air Bags
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Expectations then and now

• Then - CMI
• Narrow focus on specific problem
• Limit scope to low hanging fruit
• No assumption of use beyond original scope
• Not plug-and-play
• Now - SCORM
• Fully plug-and-play
• UI and pedagogical consistency
• Key integrative technology in a much bigger
  technical picture
• XML figures prominently in this expanded agenda

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A Context of Increasing Complexity

• SCORM itself is complex
• Specification and Standards Development
• Evolution/increase of Web technologies
• Merging of learning with other technologies
• Need to address pedagogical/ui holes
• Global and diverse communities of practice

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Complexity and Collapse
Examples from The Collapse of Complex
Societies Joseph A. Tainter 1988
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A System with Technology and People Like the
earth and the sun, a question ofwhat revolves
around what?
Holy Grail Technology Quest
Coordinated Action
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Coordinated Action versus Holy Grail Technology A
cautionary tail for XML adoption The moral
coordinate or collapse
gap
3 crop new
2 crop old