Working Towards SCORM Compliance

Imperial Automation technologies Inc.®, announces today that its CAT/TMMS® Training and Management Systems V2.0 will be released during Q2 2004, that will be compliant to SCORM specifications.

"Certification is a major milestone in the evolution of training material development and management of all assets,” said Bill Valedis, Manager of Training development at Imperial Automation technologies Inc." Producers such as ourselves and Consumers such as most of our customers, need to be assured that training material customized/developed to address their individual needs, meet the highest standards for interoperability and reuse of SCORM compliant content.

The SCORM is the standard content model for sharable learning. It is part of the US government’s desire to coordinate and standardize existing and emerging Learning systems. The SCORM, or Sharable Content Object Reference Model, specifies if learning content is to be portable, it should be:

• Accessible – Create, find and modify instructional components known as Sharable Content Objects (SCOs) to build a sharable courses. A course can be created with SCOs stored locally or accessed from several remote sources. For us, both front-end development tools such as CAT® and deployment tools such as TMMS® are will work together to provide the plant floor accessibility and re-usability of training content.
• Interoperable – When SCOs are retrieved into various LMS systems, the navigation, tracking and recording mechanisms will work.
• Durable – Ensures that SCOs do not need redesigning, reconfiguring or recoding when new technology or systems come along.
• Reusable – SCOs are recombined into different web-based courses for additional learners to maximize the value of the content.
• Cost-Effective – Quality content is easier to find, use and reuse. An organization can also maximize its budget by using existing content that we have developed for them from other projects.