course uses 2-dimensional grid navigation, with some adaptivity based upon a learner's history in the course. Lesson-to-lesson navigation is done using a learning grid, which is displayed when you click on the "lessons" area of the main menu for the first time. It is also displayed anytime you click on the Nav Grid icon at the top of the page..

The rows in this grid denote two learning levels:

• Beginner, for content experts and others who want to gain a better understanding of how SCORM might impact the manner in which e-courses are presented and shared,
• Advanced, for instructional designers and others who want to know how to put together SCORM-conformant courses.

The 5 columns represent content areas:

• Core Concepts, concepts and terminology needed at that level,
• Packaging, course packaging using the SCORM manifest file,
• Run-time, the SCORM methods and data model elements used for tracking courses on SCORM-conformant learning management systems,
• metadata, SCORM course data for packaging SCORM-conformant courses,
• Assessment, self-assessments of whether you are prepared for higher level lessons.

You can use the grid to navigate to any of the lessons in this course, and depending upon your background and experience, you might want to set your own path through the lessons. However, this course monitors your progress and provides adaptive guidance for selecting your next lesson. This guidance is always available by clicking on the oracle icon, , at the top of the page, and it is always summarized at the end of each lesson.

Your scores on the end-of-lesson content assessment and your self-assessment are used to prepare a tailored list of suggested next lessons as you move through the course. As mentioned above, this guidance is presented after every lesson assessment, and also by clicking at anytime on the oracle icon. However, if you should open a lesson that requires a prerequisite lesson that you have not completed, the guards icon, , will appear with a warning and suggested next steps.

Here are some suggestions for getting started and navigating the course:

• If you are unfamiliar with SCORM, start with the beginner core concepts lesson.
• Before undertaking lessons at any particular level, complete the core concepts lesson for that level. The core concepts lessons set the terminology and background used in the other lessons at that level.
• Once a topic has been completed at one level, you can jump to the same topic in the next higher level. However, remember to complete the core concepts at that higher level before advancing.
• Cover all four content topics in a row before taking the assessment designed for that level. Unless you are familiar with developing SCORM content, the assessment will be confusing without this background.
• If you get confused, the first page of every lesson describes the prerequisites for that lesson, and you can always click on the oracle icon to get your recommended next lessons.
• From time-to-time you may want to print a lesson page, such as this one, for later reference. To print a lesson page, place your cursor within the lesson page and then right click on that page. A right click on a lesson page displays a popup menu with a "print" item. Select "print" on that popup menu to print the lesson page.

Primary testing for this course was done using the MS Explorer browser, version 5.5. It was also tested in Netscape 4.x and Netscape 6.x. Unfortunately some of the behaviors in the assessments will not work with Netscape 6.x. This course was not tested with other browsers.

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