SCORM Compliant-Architecture for Including Simulations in E-learning Systems

Abstract

The integration of interaction and simulation in e-learning systems represents a milestone in educational research and supports the student’s learning process in innumerable ways. Nevertheless, current standards do not provide appropriate mechanisms to treat simulations as learning objects, which makes their integration into e-learning systems a hard task. This work proposes an architecture as extension to SCORM which includes a Tutoring Module for Simulations (TMS). The main objective consists in providing mechanisms to track and “observe” the student’s actions while interacting with a simulation, thus enabling the TMS to take decisions or intervene when necessary, and/or to modify the simulation course.