Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is an XML-based
framework used to define and access information about learning
objects so they can be easily shared among different learning
management systems (LMSs). SCORM was developed in response to a
United States Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to promote
standardization in e-learning. The DoD had been frustrated by
problems they encountered when trying to share distance learning
courses among different learning management systems used within
the Department, so in 1997 they formed the Advanced Distributed
Learning (ADL) specification group to create a way to make
learning content portable across various systems. ADL created
the first version of SCORM, which originally stood for Shareable
Courseware Object Reference Model. It was designed to facilitate
moving course content and related information (such as student
records) from one platform to another, to make course content
into modular objects that can be reused in other courses, and to
enable any