A process-driven e-learning content organization model

We have been trying to incorporate a concept of workflow (or business process) into a SCORM-based e-learning management system. As one of the results, we, in this paper, propose a new e-learning content organization scheme that is extendibly adopted into the SCORM content aggregation model for specifying a learning process in a SCORM-based learning management system. In terms of the representation of the e-learning activities sequencing and navigation, the current SCORM content aggregation model uses a rule-driven approach that defines the intended sequencing and ordering of learning activities inside of a tree-structured content organization, which means that not only it might be a very restricted and inflexible approach in specifying the learning activities´ sequencing and ordering, but also there is no way for educators to be involved in, to maintain or even to monitor the learning activities during that a learner is learning or studying by itself through the system. In order to get rid of these restrictions, we would apply a process-driven approach to the SCORM content aggregation model. The approach intents to replace the SCORM´s tree-structured content organization scheme by the concept of a process-driven content organization scheme in realizing the learning activities´ sequencing and ordering functionality, and we call it a process-driven e-learning content organization model. In this paper we formally and graphically describe the model and show an example to explain how it works in composing a process-driven e-learning sharable content objects sequencing and navigation model. Also, we propose a possible system architecture of a process-driven e-learning management system. We strongly believe that the process-driven e-learning content organization model inflicts heavily positive effects on the ways of composing a SCORM´s content aggregation model and implementing a SCORM-based e-learning management system as well.