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Welcome back to the ADL video webinar series on creating reasonable content using SCORM
2004. Uh... in this session we're going to be talking about understanding and preparing
for reuse; this is Part Four. So they are different categories of reuse; we'll be talking
about these four paradigms: redeploy, rearrange, repurpose, and rewrite. And let me show you
what they mean in this diagram. Redeploy means that you have a collection of SCOs and you’re
not making any changes; you’re just deploying it on another LMS. So taking your collection
of SCOs as-is and just giving it to somebody else, and let them deploy it that way. Rearrange
implies that you're either deleting or reordering the SCOs. So here you have an example of Recognizing
a Flat and Safety Precautions, which existed in the original collections of SCOs on the
left, but now you’ve deleted those last two SCOs. So you’re deleting SCOs or possibly
rearranging, reordering. Repurpose is a kind of a step-up in terms of the degree of change
that you're making in this reuse paradigm, and in repurposing you’re actually taking
the existing SCOs and then mixing them with new SCOs, either that you've developed or
somebody else has developed. So here you see Recognizing a Flat same as in the other two
cases, but now you're changing the name a little bit for the second SCO, but maybe you're
leaving the content the same. You're making some change, and then you're actually taking
SCOs that you've gotten from some other source and mixing them in. So repurposing really
means that you’re really mixing and matching SCOs from different sources. And then rewrite
is the last paradigm and that's where you're actually breaking open SCOs and rewriting
some of the content, changing the assets, etc. So here you see in this example you change
that generic Recognizing a Flat SCO to Recognizing a Flat in an SUV…4x4 SUV. So now you’re
making it specific to a particular model of car. Using SCORM sequencing, you might look
at the user’s profile and notice that they are a 4x4 SUV owner, and then deliver that
SCO using sequencing rules to that person. Another person who owns another kind of car
would get a SCO that's related to that car. So you can swap out these SCOs, uh, based
on the user’s profile, uh, using that navigation rules, sequencing and navigation. So we’re
either rewriting that SCO, or we're swapping it out under the rewrite paradigm and then
the seconds SCO’s the same. The third SCO, we're doing the same thing we did with the
first SCO, either swapping it out or rewriting it, and then the fourth SCO is the same as
the original collection. So rewriting uh, really means that you’re not just taking
SCOs as-is, but you’re actually breaking them apart and making changes to them, or
swapping them out. So this slide shows you that you can reuse assets, not just SCOs.
You have three different graphics here, each composed of three slices. Each slice is a
file, and that middle part of each one is the same. The top and bottom are delivered
to a particular audience: truck drivers, first responders, shipping inspectors. So the top
and bottom part of each graphic is delivered based on the learner’s profile, and then
the middle part is reused. Determining the SCO Size. So here's an example of a compliance
training scenario. Your learners need to have general instruction about handling hazardous
materials, so all you need to do is show that the learner has completed the instruction.
So in this case, one SCO might suffice for this whole training uh, whatever it is, uh,
because all you need to know is that they've completed the instruction, so they've completed
that SCO. You can use data model elements to show that they've completed that. And completed
in this case means the learners have just looked at the content. Determining the SCO
size for and a certification training example may be very different. For instance, you need
to know that a shipping inspector learned to properly ship radioactive materials for
transit on a vessel, and this is part of a larger hazardous materials course, so you
would definitely want to segregate that material into its own SCO and probably have one SCO
for each of the objectives. So, the learners complete each of these objectives, each one
is a SCO, each SCO communicates, um, the assessment results to the LMS, and so you have a record
of how the learner did in terms of each one of the SCOs, whether they passed the, uh,
mastery status criteria. So, when you're reusing content and you’re trying to find SCOs that
other people have created that you might be able to reuse, you need to search through
libraries, repositories, registries for that content, unless you know where it is and can
just go get it. The ADL Registry, the acronym is ADL-R, is a public place that ADL has created
for reusable content, so the metadata describing content that's available for reuse is in that
ADL-R. It’s a website, you go there, and you search it just like a Google search, and
it'll tell you if there's any content that you can reuse. And then also you register
your content in the ADL-R or so that it's available to other people who might want reuse
your content. To learn more about us and SCORM, you can go to our website, you can subscribe
to our newsletter, you can follow us on Twitter, and you can go to our Linked in group. And
that completes Part Four, Understanding Reuse. Coming up we'll be talking about designing
for reuse, Part Five.
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