Is SCORM Still Relevant in 2026?
SCORM turns 25 this year. The standard has been declared dead at least once every two years since 2015, and every time, the corporate LMS market responds by continuing to ship it as the default option.
If you are evaluating a training platform in 2026, the SCORM question is real. You want to know whether the format will still be supported five years from now, whether newer standards like xAPI or cmi5 offer meaningful advantages, and whether your LMS can actually read them.
The short answer: SCORM is not dead, not replaced, and not going anywhere in the enterprise training stack this decade. The longer answer has caveats.