SCORM & Advanced Distributed Learning & Repositories

Some interesting description about SCORM: http://www.adlnet.gov/

• General Common Questions
• Technical Common Questions
• ADL Common Questions

And repositories and indexes:

CORDRA is:

• A formal model that can be used to design federations of repositories (the CORDRA reference model)
• A collection of operational systems built from the CORDRA model, including:
  • A prototype implementation of a repository federation
  • An operational federation of federations used to combine different CORDRA federations.
• The activities and projects surrounding the definition of the CORDRA model and creation of the operational systems.

CORDRA is not a repository of content. It is a searchable index of content metadata that can be resolved to content located in distributed repositories.

Currently, there is no SCORM specification for repositories, and no notion of an "ADL Repository." Repositories can not be "SCORM-conformant," nor can they be ADL Certified. ADL is, however, defining a reference model that can be used to build federations of repositories. This initiative is called Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration Architecture (CORDRA), and is focused in the near-term on building a Department of Defense (DoD)-wide registry for learning content called the ADL Registry.