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2013 Learning Technologies UK – Enabling Data Flow in Learning – Tim Martin
The document discusses Project Tin Can and the Tin Can API, which aim to enable data sharing about learning experiences across systems. It notes flaws in the previous standard, SCORM, which have led software and organizations to stagnate. The Tin Can API is presented as a new shared language for systems to communicate about what people do in order to help more individuals succeed. Real examples are provided to illustrate how the Tin Can API works.
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- 1. Tin Can APIBasics Project Tin Can: enabling data flow in learning Tim Martin Rustici Software tim.martin@tincanapi.com @timpmartin #lt13uk #tincanapi
- 2. Fondly remembered 10 yearsago, SCORM was a hero… of a sort
- 3. Our antagonist… The thingsthat made SCORM cute in his 20s became the pot belly of his 40s.
- 4. Flaws revealed SCORM isa hero no longer. It's presenting obstacles that have led our industry's software to stagnate, and our organizations have followed.
- 5. I believe… Helping individualssucceed is the most important thing we can do at an organization. And as people.
- 6. Through SCORM’s lookingglass Stories
- 7. Back to school Mr.Goforth and Oakley
- 8. My story David, theSoftware Developer
- 9. We, with abig W. We want to build software that helps people become what they aspire to be. This requires understanding people's experiences across contexts.
- 10. Standards are writtento serve the intent of people. We, those of us working on the Tin Can API, want to help people succeed.
- 11. The Tin CanAPI is a shared language of experience, a way for systems to talk to each other about what people do.
- 12. Through Tin Can’slooking glass Stories
- 13. Back to school Mr.Goforth and Oakley
- 14. My story David, theSoftware Developer
- 15. This is real TheTin Can API is no longer just an idea.
- 16. The tools willprogress only as fast as you ask them to. Do not accept the status quo.
- 17. “As is sooften the case in the history of science, an increase in the accuracy of measurement led to a fundamental shift in the perception of the world.” -- Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air
- 18. Tin Can APIBasics Project Tin Can: enabling data flow in learning Tim Martin Rustici Software tim.martin@tincanapi.com @timpmartin #lt13uk #tincanapi
Editor's Notes
- #2 Ask people about themselves as they come in
- #3 Associated picture: heroMy commentsContent was reusable across environments/LMSsThe government didn't have to pay for content over and overThe community came together to do something in a consistent fashionRapid authoring tools were able to existBrowser based content was possible (this was progress)We agreed upon a language for expressing a certain set of activitiesStarted, finished, passed, answered a question
- #4 Associated picture: hero with bellyMy commentsOne userOriginated in a Learning Management SystemLaunching a prescribed experienceIn an active browser session(Inconsistently)
- #5 Why did you come? Why are you here?What has SCORM done to you? Take notesAccept my own role hereStagnancyA limited picture of learningAccepting defeat by SCORMAccepting vendors who have accepted these limitations
- #6 This is what I believeAs learning professionals of many typesI believe too many tools are focused on helping companies and groups succeed. Learning is a personal experience. How do we help the individual?
- #8 Mr. Goforth (the social studies teacher) and Oakley (his adventurous student)We'll start with an experience we all share, 6th grade social studies. Each of you was a kid, or a parent, at some point.Paint a picture of MrGoforth (and conquer). His love of teaching (first day annecdote). The fact that he wants to give each kid the best experience possible.Paint a picture of Oakley, the adventurous student. The kid who cares about WWII at home. And read's Anne Frank's diary. Mr. Goforth uses technology, and has found a piece of content about WWII. He delivers that content via the school's LMS and also serves a quiz that way. He knows the following:Which students watch the content and for how longWho did well on the quiz and whether Oakley passedMaybe, just maybe, which questions caused problems for his students.
- #9 David is a 26 year old software developer with limited experience at a religious software platformTalk about the degree to which we've used SCORM based training at Rustici SoftwareConsider how we might use it: new hire training, policy acknowledgementMy ability to help David succeed is not substantially enhanced by SCORM
- #10 This is the big W, the contributors to the specificationA brief comment about isolated pictures of experienceMy bike accident as an indicator of my biking ability, or my driving ability
- #11 * This is big W again
- #12 What Tin Can isA web serviceA series of sentencesNoun – verb - object
- #14 Reminder: Social studies teacher and interested studentKindle notes from Oakley reading Anne FrankWWII app interactions from OakleySmartboard exercise where all student get credit for attending a lectureAttendance in lectures (by topic) noted by attendance systemOakley's searches indicate her unsatisfied interestTicket to Ride Europe (a European map game) indicating understanding of geography from each student
- #15 Reminder: David, Self-guided software developerExperiences at prior employer – watershedWhat does David read outside of work? Could this tell me, his employer, about the things he'd like to be working on? Could this help me to help David be what he wants to be?What if Github made statements? Would we be able to see prospective managers from their patterns of peer review?Could we see the statements issued by our Pong app and learn about patterns that would help David be more effective?
- #16 Real implementations invite to Tin Can AlleyReal, continued progress
- #17 Consider a demo at this stage if timewatershed.ws
- #18 Tell the story of Joseph Priestly and Benjamin Franklin.In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the sealed mercury thermometer, a dramatic change in our ability to measure the temperature of things.