Joel McKinney is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design/ Multimedia at the Center for Statewide E-learning at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. In addition to developing and teaching the media courses for the E-learning Center’s graduate program, he serves as Northern State’s liaison with the (DoD) Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative Academic Co-lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Joel’s other interests include sculptural metal casting, architecture, virtual sculpture and computer animation.

 

Articles by Joel McKinney

Shareable Content Objects (SCORM): Whole Course Design and Implementation Issues

(12/22/03)
As rich-media e-Learning Increasingly becomes the educational resource of choice, specifications like SCORM become increasingly important. Yet we are only beginning to identify best practices to support the different contexts in which people learn. This wide-ranging article shares the author’s experiences and research with Shareable Content Objects (SCOs) and the issues that SCOs raise.