An unnoticed potential problem in the making: The requirement for SCORM in the newly announced Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants program (TAACCCT)

"[The US] Department of Labor and Department of Education [announced] a potentially groundbreaking program for Community Colleges and Open Educational Resources (OER) - TAACCCT [Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training] - that contains within it a clear violation of the President's new mandate - namely that something called SCORM - a government controlled and regulated standard that is about ten years behind the industry - be the required format for content developed in the program....[I]n the fine print is the requirement to use SCORM - an antiquated content format developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. The SCORM requirement is a ticking time bomb with respect to being able to meet the need to reuse and remix the TAACCCT-created digital courses and resources - which is a key expectation of the program. SCORM will add enormous cost to the creation of the courses and to the platforms that must deliver them. This is a marquee example of over regulation with additional cost and no gain...."