Computer Managed Instruction (CMI) Working Group

Overview

The CMI Working Group (WG11) was formed in 1998 to standardize portions of the Computer Managed Instruction (CMI) specification developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC). Between 1998 and 2005 WG11 produced three related standards, described below. The 1484.11.1-2004 and 1484.11.2-2003 achieved widespread international adoption through their use in the 2004 editions of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), developed by the U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL). The 1484.11 standards enabled the SCORM runtime environment, a mechanism to report learner performance in a technology-supported learning activity.  With the exception of maintenance activities, WG11 was inactive for several years. As a result of discussions with the ADL, AICC and LETSI organizations, WG11 was reactivated in 2010 to undertake a revision of the 1484.11.1 data model standard. The revision intends to correct know defects, to better serve diverse communities of practice, and to enable a broader set of interactive learning experiences.

Revision of the 1484.11.1-2004 (CMI) Data Model Standard

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Revision Scope
• Usage Scenarios
• Schedule
• 1484.11.1-2004 Data Model Synopsis
• Requested Changes

Working Group Participation

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Participation in WG11 is open to all interested parties. Voting membership requires membership in the IEEE LTSC which has an annual fee of $25 US. 

For questions regarding WG11, please contact Tyde Richards, the convener, at tyderichards@gmail.com

WG11 holds weekly telecons on Fridays at 8am US Pacific with dial-in and voip telephony and screen sharing.

Subscribe to the WG11 email reflector to follow WG11 activities and receive telecon announcements:

to:  ltsc-cmi@listserv.ieee.org 

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.