SCORM > xAPI > CMI5

cmi5: The next generation SCORM

SCORM, released in 2001 (major update 2005) covers: scheduling, assessment, competencies, delivery, course management, learning records, sequencing, user management, reports, compliance, requirements tracking, curricula, certification, search and preferences.

xAPI is a data transport and storage mechanism. It is simpler and doesn’t account for the features in SCORM

CMI5 “You can think of cmi5 as the LMS “use case”  for xAPI.  cmi5 defines how the LMS and the content will communicate using the xAPI Learning Record Store (LRS)”

 

Measuring Learning

Kirkpatrick Scale

Named after Donald Kirkpatrick (Professor, University of Wisconsin) who proposed this scale for measuring the effects of learning:

  1. Reaction
    How do the learners respond to the lesson/course/etc.?
  2. Learning
    Measuring what is actually learned by the attendees
  3. Behaviour
    How does behaviour change as a result of the training?
  4. Results
    How does this affect the bottom line, or other metrics?

My first reaction is to be underwhelmed by this. Aside from becoming progressively harder to measure, it is largely subjective. That said, these are good axes to be measuring along, and should definitely be lenses through which one can review a model.