An Extension of the SCORM Standard to Support the Project of Educational Contents for t-Learning

Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) has facilitated and expanded the communication and interaction in activities of knowledge acquisitions, entertainment, and recreation in the distance learning field. This new way of teaching and learning has been called t-Learning. In this context, the Learning Objects (LOs) have an important role in assisting in the electronic courses’ development. Due the fast progress of e-Learning, some efforts toward standardization have appeared in order to enable the reusability of educational contents and interoperability among systems, and one of these standards is the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). Therefore, the main goal of this work is to present an extension of SCORM aiming to adapt it to improve the search and navigation of LOs with educational content for t-Learning. This is done through an authoring tool named T-SCORM ADAPTER, which is able to apply this extension in a fast and efficient way. Francisco Miguel da Silva Rural Federal University of Semi Arid, Brazil Francisco Milton Mendes Neto Rural Federal University of Semi Arid, Brazil Aquiles Medeiros Filgueira Burlamaqui Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil João Phellipe Freitas Pinto Rural Federal University of Semi Arid, Brazil Carlos Evandro de Medeiros Fernandes Rural Federal University of Semi Arid, Brazil Rafael Castro de Souza Rural Federal University of Semi Arid, Brazil DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4542-4.ch006