Computer Managed Instruction (CMI) Working Group

Today Computer Based Training (CBT) is being written by a diverse number of parties using very diverse tools or authoring systems. Many of the CBT lessons being developed can complement and work well with other lessons developed in different locations with different tools by different people. There is a need to allow these complementary lessons to be brought together and used in a single course. However, this cannot be done without defining a standard set of CMI (Computer Managed Instruction) functions and a matching set of CBT functions.

Working Group Activities:

• Request For Comment: The CMI Working Group has issued a request for comment on 3 of its Standards.  Please visit the News Annoucement for more information.  Request for comment period ends January 22, 2010.
• Reaffirmation of:  1484.11.1-2004 IEEE Standard for Learning Technology - Data Model for Content Object Communication ended on December 10, 2009.  Reviewing comments received and ballot results.  A ballot resolution committee meeting is being planned.
• Reaffirmation of:  1484.11.2-2003 IEEE Standard for Learning Technology - ECMAScript Application Programming Interface for Content to Runtime Services Communication.
• Simulation Interface Standards - Study Group

Published Standards:

• 1484.11.1-2004 IEEE Standard for Learning Technology - Data Model for Content Object Communication:  This Standard describes a data model to support the interchange of agreed upon data elements and their values between a learning-related content object and a runtime service (RTS) used to support learning management. 
• 1484.11.2-2003 IEEE Standard for Learning Technology - ECMAScript Application Programming Interface for Content to Runtime Services Communication:  This Standard describes an ECMAScript application-programming interface (API) for content-to-runtime-services communication.
• 1484.11.3-2005 IEEE Standard for Learning Technology - Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schema Binding for Data Model for Content Object Communication: This Standard specifies a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schema binding of the data model defined in IEEE 1484.11.1–2004, "Standard for Learning Technology – Data Model for Content Object Communication." The purpose of this Standard is to allow the creation of IEEE 1418.11.1–2004 data-model instances in XML. This Standard uses the W3C XML Schema definition language as the encoding. This allows for interoperability and the exchange of data-model instances between various systems.