Multimedia Courseware in an Open Systems Environment: A Federal Strategy

摘要

The Department of Defense (DoD) Portable Courseware Project (PORTCO) is typicalof projects worldwide that require standard software interfaces. The document articulates the strategy whereby PORTCO leverages the open systems movement and the new realities of information technology. The Federal strategy for multimedia courseware is to facilitate the creation of an environment in which high quality portable courseware is available as commercial off-the-shelf products competitively supplied by vendors. The Request for Architecture developed cooperatively by DoD and NIST will generate a portable courseware system architecture incorporating standards which meet users' needs. A computer-based interactive training applications profile must be developed which, along with the system architecture, will provide the basis for identifying needed standards. NIST will then accelerate the development of these standards through established standards forums.