An integrated Learning Object Management System to simplify the use of the SCORM standards

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Learning Object Management System (LOMS), an extension of the Learning Object Repositories (LOR) (Neven, 2002). LOMS are integrated solutions that can support a community of practice in cooperatively managing sets of digital educational resources; through a LOMS, not only can users share LOs as in a traditional LOR, but they can also modify the LOs at different levels, and download them into a LMS. Then, we illustrate the main features of a LOMS, called FreeLOms, that has been developed at our Institute within the framework of a project named SLOOP- Sharing Learning Object in an Open Perspective, co-founded by the European Commission in the Leonardo Da Vinci program (Ravotto, 2005),