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As learning requirements change and overlap within government agencies and entities, the importance of reusable content modules, quickly become apparent. In the 21st century, new eLearning tools have evolved so that content is developed quickly and immediately integrated, rather than in days or months like in the past.  Read THESIS Case Study

Enter SCORM. SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a collection of standards and specifications adapted from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive suite of e-learning capabilities that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning content.

SCORM’s specifications were adapted from many sources. The first version of SCORM came out in 2000 by the United States Department of Defense-funded, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative. The United States Department of Defense established the ADL Initiative in 1997 to standardize government, industry and academic e-learning specs.

But SCORM standards aren’t only relevant in the United States. The ADL Initiative also has a close working relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Training Group Working Group on Individual Training and Education Developments (IT/ED). The NATO Training Group Working Group IT/ED is a NATO Forum for bilateral and multinational coordination on individual training, technology and education developments within the NATO Training Group. There are now three ADL Co-Laboratories for cooperative research, development and assessment of new learning technology.

Why is this important to you? Because government agencies and entities are one of the heaviest producers/users of training and information material today! Even more important, Federal agency requests for proposals increasingly ask whether electronic-learning products and services comply with SCORM.

So how can THESIS benefit your agency?

• Agencies using THESIS tools to create SCORM conformant content win because instead of wasting money and time on integration of different libraries of content, they can easily mix applications with their own custom content, using the same delivery environment they know – Microsoft Office.
  
• Economics. Across all branches of government, a tremendous amount of money is spent developing lesson materials. Now, content becomes usable by many people in many ways and places.
  
• Overwhelming functionality. eLearning content built on Microsoft Office applications and then becoming SCORM conformant through THESIS, can be shared across agencies and with non-government entities such as colleges and universities.
  
• SCORM conformant courses can be updated using THESIS tools without recreating them. It’s relatively inexpensive to just change a “piece” of an e-learning course, and many agencies want to share content which is why we invented THESIS Librarian.
  

To learn more which THESIS product is right for you check out our comparison chart or better yet, download our free trial version and see how THESIS can transform your content in just a few quick clicks!