Educateca: A Web 2.0 Approach to e-Learning with SCORM

Abstract

Abstract. This paper introduces the Educateca project, a Web 2.0 approach to e-learning. The project refactors SCORM, the de facto e-learning standard, to embrace the two main shifts in Web 2.0: the WOA (Web Oriented Architecture) and the social trends in user involvement. In this new context of the Internet, flexibility is a must and so big and static e-learning content are no longer effective enough. Thus, we propose a more dynamic approach where small pedagogical units are offered as services to be combine on-the-fly, whenever needed. Social aspects are currently another key and so we propose to adapt the e-learning ecosystem to allow students to innovate and create new content and/or assess the existent one. Clearly, in this new philosophy, recommendation is essential to avoid overwhelming users with too much educative content that are not able to filter, asses and/or consume.

Definition and Validation of the Subset of SCORM Requirements for the Enhanced Reusability of Learning Content in Learning Management Systems

“…The RTE consists of three components [12], [22]: 1) Launch mechanism, which defines a standard way of launching SCOs by LMSs; 2) Application Programming Interface (API) that supports communication between an LMS and SCOs facilitating interoperability and reusability of learning content; 3) Data model, which contains a standardised set of elements used to describe SCOs. According to [16], the API is implemented by an API adapter that is an ECMAScript (JavaScript) object with the title "API" and it does not support other communication ways with LMS like web servers or HTTP requests.…”