SCORM Compliant-Architecture for Including Simulations in E-learning Systems

Abstract

The integration of interaction and simulation in elearning systems represents a milestone in educational research and supports the student's learning process in innumerable ways. Nevertheless, current standards do not provide appropriate mechanisms to treat simulations as learning objects, which makes their integration into e-learning systems a hard task. This work proposes an architecture as extension to SCORM which includes a Tutoring Module for Simulations (TMS). The main objective consists in providing mechanisms to track and "observe" the student's actions while interacting with a simulation, thus enabling the TMS to take decisions or intervene when necessary, and/or to modify the simulation course.

Integrating Adaptive Games in Student-Centered Virtual Learning Environments

“…However, all these approaches use ad-hoc implementations of the communication between content and VLE, which limits the impact to a concrete platform and hinders the general adoption in educational settings. Additionally, while the problem of connecting interactive content (such as games and interactive simulations) with a VLE in standard-compliant ways has been partially addressed (A. de Antonio Jiménez, 2008), there is still a need of research about how to use this connection automatically for adaptation and assessment purposes, and how to assure that the developed games will be resilient to future changes in the current standards. Therefore, to facilitate the inclusion of educational games into the current studentcentered VLE we need to achieve a greater independence between the implementation of the games and the standards used to connect them with the VLEs for adaptation and assessment.…”