Using Open Archives and Learning Objectives for Reusing CSL Contents: The SCORM- Sharable Content Object Reference Model

Abstract

In this chapter the SCORM standards as a mean of creating skills to support the conception and development of e-learning devices (contents and systems) are introduced. It is shown how the SCORM, combined with new technologies/techniques as metadata harvesting, XML family, RSS, and feedreaders, offers a potentially substantive approach to understanding the dissemination of open archives initiatives and learning objects repositories in a variety of contexts. Furthermore, understanding the underlying assumptions and theoretical constructs through the use of the SCORM Model will not only teach the researcher a better way to design and develop CSL contents, but also help in the understanding of storing, distributing, sharing, and reusing CSL contents made by themselves or by other institutions abroad.