Enterprise Lock-In: How SCORM Survives Obsolescence—And Why AI Changes Everything

SCORM, a 25-year-old standard designed for CD-ROMs and Flash, still governs over 80% of corporate e-learning—not due to technical merit but because of powerful network effects that lock organizations into simultaneous upgrades. Generative AI represents the first credible disruption, enabling adaptive, context-aware learning that SCORM's completion-tracking model fundamentally cannot support.