Bob K

Actually SCORM is very easy to create using a tool like eXe Learning editor. Take a look at algebra1.eastbayschools.net for a working example of how standardized tests "could" be turned into online learning environments in a moodle framework, with the aide of an editing tool like eXe. It's only a working module, but should provide some additional context. There are some Camtasia videos there that I created to show some of the features of eXe, but the eXe developers have provided a lot of material themselves.

SCORM is only one of the output formats available in eXe.

I used it because it packaged the assessments up nicely, in a way that they could be easily added to Moodle, and the "grades" tracked at a high level. One issue I had was that the granularity of the assesment reporting was at the test, and not the question, so you could determine a score, but not a specific area. Hence you would have to design to break learning modules into specific skill specific areas. Not a bid deal for the simplicity.

Greg -

Thanks for the feedback. When I was bantering about these issues on Moodle, I do remember one of the active developers noting that they could/would create a "share coursework" button, or some kind of tool. I don't know if that got picked up on or not. I think that would also only solve part of the problem... I think a lot of the effort would have to go into training teachers in both open source based
pedagogy, and introducing them to a variety of standards based frameworks. SCORM, IMS, etc go a long way to help encourage that. It would be both fun and interesting if this kind of idea really caught on, and all standardized tests, both national, and regional were converted into a shareable, common format, that could be tied to assesments, such as SCORM quizzes, etc. If you are at Red Hat, and would like to help sponsor something like that, I would love to discuss.

One of the more academic, yet interesting points of the effort was to tie these ideas both to Vygotsky and Engelbart.