T-SCORM: An Extension of the SCORM Standard to Support the Project of Educational Contents for t-Learning

Francisco Miguel da Silva, Francisco Milton Mendes Neto, Aquiles Medeiros Filgueira Burlamaqui, Diogo Henrique Duarte Bezerra

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil.
Federal University of Semi Arid (UFERSA), Mossoró, Brazil.

DOI: 10.4236/ce.2012.31017                

Abstract

The Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) has facilitated and expanded the communication and interaction in activities of knowledge acquisitions, entertainment and recreation in Distance Learning field. This new way of teaching and learning has been called t-Learning. In this context, the Learning Objects (LOs) have an important role to assist in the electronic courses’ development. Due the fast progress of e-Learning, some efforts to standardization have appeared in order to enable the reusability of educational contents and interoperability among systems, and one of these standards is the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). Therefore, the main goal of this work is to present an extension of SCORM aiming to adapt it in order to improve the search and navigation of LOs with educational content for t-Learning. That will be done through an authoring tool named T-SCORM ADAPTER, which will be able to apply this extension in a fast and efficient way.

Keywords

iDTV, t-Learning; Learning Objects; SCORM; Extension

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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