MIL-HDBK-29612-3 Revision A:2001

FOREWORD
1 SCOPE
  1.1 Scope
  1.2 Application guidance
      1.2.1 How to use this handbook
2 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS
  2.1 General
  2.2 Government documents
      2.2.1 Specifications, standards, and handbooks
      2.2.2 Other Government documents, drawings, and publications
  2.3 Order of precedence
3 DEFINITIONS
  3.1 General
4 INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTION PLANNING
  4.1 Introduction
  4.2 What is IMI?
      4.2.1 IMI products
  4.3 IMI and the Instructional Systems Development/Systems
      Approach to Training (ISD/SAT) process
      4.3.1 IMI applications, IMI uses may include:
      4.3.2 Advantages of IMI
  4.4 General rules for selecting IMI as an instructional media
      delivery system
  4.5 When to use IMIions.
  4.6 Quality improvement
  4.7 The IMI project team
  4.8 Management and organizational support decisions
  4.9 Media selection
  4.10 IMI application consideration
  4.11 IMI cost considerations
  4.12 How to plan an in-house IMI effort
5 SOURCE MATERIALS FOR INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTION PRODUCTS
  5.1 Text
  5.2 Audio
      5.2.1 Human hearing
      5.2.2 Audio technology
      5.2.3 Audio technology progress
      5.2.4 Digital audio in multimedia
      5.2.5 Examples of frequency ranges
      5.2.6 Disk storage requirements
      5.2.7 Hardware and software considerations
      5.2.8 Advantages and disadvantages of digital audio
            consideration
  5.3 Visual Information
      5.3.1 The visual element
  5.4 Graphics
  5.5 Animation
6 INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTION PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
  6.1 IMI products
      6.1.1 ICW
  6.2 Electronic publications
      6.2.1 Electronic guides
      6.2.2 Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM)
  6.3 Electronic testing
      6.3.1 About Electronic testing
      6.3.2 Benefit of electronic testing
  6.4 Simulation
  6.5 Electronic management systems
      6.5.1 Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS)
      6.5.2 Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI)
      6.5.3 Learning Management System (LMS)
      6.5.4 Electronic job aids
7 INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTION EVALUATION
  7.1 IMI quality process
      7.1.1 Verification
      7.1.2 Validation
      7.1.3 Acceptance
      7.1.4 Document lessons learned
  7.2 Develop a validation plan
      7.2.1 Purpose
      7.2.2 What is in a validation plan?
      7.2.3 Getting ready to validate
      7.2.4 How to use a validation point
      7.2.5 Measure against a standard
      7.2.6 Follow the plan
  7.3 Conduct technical accuracy reviews
      7.3.1 What should be reviewed?
      7.3.2 How to conduct a review
  7.4 Conduct individual tryouts
      7.4.1 Purpose
      7.4.2 Select students
      7.4.3 Before an individual tryout
      7.4.4 During an individual tryout
      7.4.5 Typical problems
      7.4.6 After an individual tryout
  7.5 Conduct small-group tryouts
      7.5.1 Purpose
      7.5.2 Select students
      7.5.3 Number of students
      7.5.4 Time is a critical factor
      7.5.5 Before a small-group tryout
      7.5.6 During a small-group tryout
      7.5.7 After a small-group tryout
  7.6 Finalize the IMI program
      7.6.1 Purpose
      7.6.2 What needs to be updated?
      7.6.3 Final quality check
8 NOTES
  8.1 Intended use
  8.2 CD-ROM destruction
  8.3 Subject term (key word) listing
CONCLUDING MATERIAL

Specifies background information for the design, planning, development, implementation, evaluation and management of Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI) products.