Educate-Global helps set international standards

All E-G products, including the Learning Management System (LMS), third-party resources, and custom coursework, meet the IMS-SCORM standards for e-learning. This means that resources from around the world are interoperable with Educate-Global's products.

IMS-SCORM standards

Industry standards have been developing in parallel with the industry. The emerging unified standard is known as "IMS-SCORM".

IMS stands for Instructional Management Standards, a global consortium of over 300 universities and companies such as Stanford, MIT, University of Barcelona, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and Educate-Global. The IMS was founded in 1997 with the objective of developing and establishing world-wide standards for e-learning.

SCORM stands for Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model. SCORM was developed by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) group, which was created by the U.S. government to oversee the standardization of e-learning.

Some of the standardizations of the IMS-SCORM include:

Flexible delivery options

Limited types of questions and answers

Use of XML for interoperability

Consistent course packaging

The goal is to offer interoperability between coursework and learning management systems so that courses from Harvard, for example, can be offered to students in Latin America.