1. Improving E-Learning At An-Najah University Through the Adoption of SCORM Dr. Raed Alqadi SCORM Workshop-1 Feb 11/2009 Funded by QIF

2. Outline What is the Project? E-learning Components SCORM Overview
Why SCORM?
Authoring Tools
OCC Development

3. Project Goals
Understand and Adopt SCORM in E-learning at An-Najah University
Use Standards “SCORM” in Developing Courses from Now ON.
Transform OCC into a SCORM standard LMS
Develop pilot SCORM compliant Courses
Train a pilot Team and disseminate knowledge to all Instructors .

4. Project Team
Management: Dr. Raed, Dr. Loai and an Administrative Assistant.
Local Consultants
Research and Analysis
SCORM Consultant- Dr. Farouq Mosa
Training Consultant- Eng Razi
IT Implementation Consultant- Eng Razi
IT consultants: Eng. Abdullah Rashed and Eng Imad Natsheh.
Instructors Team: Dr. Isam Jerdaneh, Dr. Majdi Dwikat. Dr. Hasan Al-Qadi, and Dr. Ibrahim Abu-Shqair.
Support Team : Sameer Allouneh and Haitham Salwaha ( 5th year Computer Engineering Students– Almost Engineers)

5. E-Learning Main Components
Learning Management System (LMS)
Course Material=> needs Authoring Tools
Instructor/Course Designer
Students
Interaction between Students and Instructions through the LMS

6. Learning Management System (LMS)
It is a Container for the Courses
Provides Interaction with the Students/Instructor
In addition to course material it provides
, messages, notes, appointments
Calendar
Assignments, quizzes
Monitors Student Activities
Forums, wikis, blogs

7. LMS Also called VLE ( Virtual Learning Environment) Commercial LMSs
WebCT, Blackboard, and others
Cost Lots of Money per year
Open Source (Free)
MOODLE , SAKAI
Needs Customization
Home Grown ( In house Developed)
OCC ( Online Course Container)
OCC is developed by us at An-Najah
Integrated with Zajel
Available and people have been using it

8. Course Material How to develop Course material ?
Can use ad/hoc techniques
HTML ( website pages)
PowerPoint slides, pdf …, etc
Can use Authoring tools
Commercial tools
Open Source ( free tools)
Tools provided by some LMSs (e.g. MOODLE)

9. We need Standards
Different Authoring Tools, Different LMSs cause problems
Change LMS … need to rebuild the material ..not good
Need also a standard way for interaction and building the material.
Standard : Best Known so far is SCORM
SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004
MOODLE is only SCORM 1.2

10. SCORM Sharable content Object Reference Model
A collection of specifications adapted from multiple sources by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) to provide a comprehensive suite of e-learning capabilities that enable accessibility, interoperability, durability, reusability, and cost effectiveness of web based learning content
Brings other standards together:
AICC, IMS, IEEE, ARIADNE

11. Why SCORM ? Can share and reuse SCOs Not an easy standard
LMSs claim to be SCORM compliant … how true is that?
MOODLE can open material developed by SCORM Authoring Tools.
MOODLE authoring tool is NOT SCORM
SCORM separates Authoring from LMS but keeps interaction.

12. Why SCORM ?
Lets you make small independent learning object called Sharable Content Objects (SCOs)
Lets you easily combine and recombine these SCOs in different Aggregations(eg. Courses) for different purposes
Lets you create learning content that is independent of any particular Learning Management Systems (LMS) implementation
Greater Efficiencies and lower costs
Reuse content for faster development
Share content between systems
Reduce costs of content maintenance
Reduce Risk
Future –proof courseware investments

13. Why SCORM? Develop your material based on SCORM
It will work on WebCT, MOODLE, new OCC …etc
Use SCORM compliant Authoring Tools ( Not MOODLE Tool)
OCC is currently being transformed to SCORM

14. SCORM Compliant Authoring Tools
Commercial : many , but cost Money
Best Commercial ( according to us ) is Course Genie . It is a plug in for Microsoft Word
There is also Trident ( Commercial) ..
Open Source (free)
We are building our own ..free

15. Free (Open Source) Authoring Tools
eXe, we will adopt this for now  
Reload ( use it with eXe)
CourseLab    
All are SCORM 1.2

16. Commercial Tools
 Course Genie 2.0 price 200$  : Link:  
Trident 2.0:   price 349$  : Link:
Free download trial for one month

17. Difference between 1.2 and 2004
SCORM 1.2 : Material, Interaction (exams and others) . No Sequencing and navigation
SCORM 2004: latest, all what in Sequencing and Navigation and more Interaction.

18. What is Needed to transform OCC into SCORM 2004 Compliant LMS
Understand the SCORM Standards – Thousands of pages
Implement the Run Time Library
Implement CAM (Content Aggregation Model)
Implement Sequencing and Navigation.

19. Thank you