Standards and specifications for e-learning systems

This paper presents a brief description of Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), a set of standards and specifications intended to be used in e-learning for the purpose of sharing content across different e-learning systems. SCORM has gone through changes since its origin to keep up with technology development and growing demands on e-learning systems. Since these standards are being used in practice, practical issues arose which finally led to the divergence of developmental directions for the two new future versions of SCORM.