This document provides an overview of how to get started with Tin Can (xAPI). Tin Can is a standard for tracking learning experiences across systems and applications. It allows systems to communicate about learner activities, performance, and outcomes. The document outlines several key steps to get started with Tin Can, including identifying a problem area or learning program to focus on, designing how existing systems can integrate and share data using Tin Can, developing the integration, and deploying it to begin collecting data and analyzing learning outcomes. Examples of how organizations have used Tin Can to improve training programs and measure the impact of learning are also provided.

1. How to get started with Tin Can (xAPI)

2. What would you say you do here?
Who are we?
Tim Dickinson
Product Owner
Watershed LRS
CarylYenny
Content Product Manager
Tribridge HCM

3. What is ?
And what do I do with it?

4. A shared language for two systems
to talk about the things that
a person does

5. A modern, web-service
based solution

6. A two party system
Activity
Provider
LRS

7. Noun — Verb — Object
(and some other stuff)

8. Contributing Data
LRS

9. Learning Data Sources:
LRSPerformance
Observation

10. Other Data Sources
Risk
Events
Treatment
Outcomes
Employee
Data
LRS

11. How do I get started?
Pick one idea to get started
Run a pilot
Improve from there

12. • Whatever you do, you’ll need an
LRS.
• Level of analytics, reporting, and
other features vary
• Consider your immediate and
future needs.
• Consider conformance.
Learning Records Stores

13. Actually Using Tin Can
• Define a problem you have
• Identify a program to examine
DISCOVER

14. Classrom Training? Mobile Content? Performance
Observation?
What are the systems that exist within that problem or program?
DESIGN

15. DEVELOPMENT
Identify
Implement
Design
Develop

16. Deploy, Observe, Act, Repeat
DEPLOY
KPIs
Formal Activity Informal Activity
Performance Support

17. Learning Analytics

18. Why learning analytics matter
• Understand what learning content is the most engaging
• Track workplace experiences and performance outcomes
• Compare and correlate training and job performance
• Understand a learning program’s business impact
• Use data to evaluate learning programs for future improvement

20. Improve sales of new product
through training.

21. Challenges:
1. Track all training related to new product
1. Correlate training with performance

22. Tin Can affordances:
LRS

23. Measuring Engagement

24. Metrics beyond completions in Excel

26. How different types of training
affect emergency response

27. Limits:

28. Emergencies are unpredictable.

29. Tin Can affordances:

30. Immersive view for the students

33. Simplified view of what’s working
and what’s not

37. Mobile (real-time) checklists
• Performance observation
• Self and Group assessments

39. AT&T’s training challenge :
“How do we provide effective, efficient,
and engaging compliance training for
243,000 employees”

40. Predefined experiments
to test hypotheses

41. Hypothesis

42. This graph does not reflect actual results. This is a sample graph based on the hypothesis.

43. Tin Can affordances:

44. Conventional activities,
unexpected outcome
This graph does not reflect actual results. This is a sample graph based on the hypothesis.

45. Existing, outfitted tool to
contribute statements
See http://tincanapi.com/adopters/

47. How to get started with Tin Can (xAPI)
Tim Dickinson
Tim.Dickinson@watershedlrs.com
Caryl Yenny
Caryl.Yenny@tribridge.com

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