A process-driven e-learning content organization model

We have been trying to incorporate a concept of workflow (or business process) into a SCORM-based e-learning management system. As one of the results, we, in this paper, propose a new e-learning content organization scheme that is extendibly adopted into the SCORM content aggregation model for specifying a learning process in a SCORM-based learning management system. In terms of the representation of the e-learning activities sequencing and navigation, the current SCORM content aggregation model uses a rule-driven approach that defines the intended sequencing and ordering of learning activities inside of a tree-structured content organization, which means that not only it might be a very restricted and inflexible approach in specifying the learning activities' sequencing and ordering, but also there is no way for educators to be involved in, to maintain or even to monitor the learning activities during that a learner is learning or studying by itself through the system. In order to get rid of these restrictions, we would apply a process-driven approach to the SCORM content aggregation model. The approach intents to replace the SCORM's tree-structured content organization scheme by the concept of a process-driven content organization scheme in realizing the learning activities' sequencing and ordering functionality, and we call it a process-driven e-learning content organization model. In this paper we formally and graphically describe the model and show an example to explain how it works in composing a process-driven e-learning sharable content objects sequencing and navigation model. Also, we propose a possible system architecture of a process-driven e-learning management system. We strongly believe that the process-driven e-learning content organization model inflicts heavily positive effects on the ways of composing a SCORM's content aggregation model and implementing a SCORM-based e-learning management system as well.