Using SCOs

Advantage:
Get to concentrate on instructional design instead of content development
Saves time and money by cutting down on content development

Disadvantage:
Content in repository might be out of date
Need more descriptive metadata
Type- fact, concept, procedure, rules, principles, etc.

Other:
Need more descriptive metadata:
-Online form
-Help function
-Generates file
-Validates
-Shows errors and references

Creating SCOs
Get team together FIRST – Instructional designer, TPOCS, SMES, project manager, programmers, graphic artists etc.

Decompose content to form SCOs and make reusable:

SCO titles
-Relevant to SCO
-Contain Learning objective

Use templates to create SCOs
Create relevant file names:
-7-10 characters
-no numbers
-limit extension to 3 characters (htm. Rather than html)

Create reusable SCOs for repositories along with transition SCOs that are not reusable

Transition SCOs can contain raw media graphics that can be put in the repository

submitted by: Dr. Ed Jones