The document discusses SCORM and its evolution over time. It introduces several standards and specifications for tracking learning activities including Project Tin Can, ADL Flex, LETSI RTWS, AICC CMI 5, and IMS Common Cartridge and LTI. It also discusses challenges with current specifications and potential areas of improvement around offline support, cross-domain tracking, and alternative devices/formats.
Tim Martin presented on Project Tin Can at the ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 conference. Project Tin Can is a new specification that aims to track learning activities across different systems and devices. It allows for on the fly entity creation, device transitions, and decoupled data models to address limitations of previous specifications like SCORM. However, fully realizing its potential will require addressing challenges like out of browser experiences, offline access, security, and alternate device formats.
This document discusses the need to evolve beyond SCORM to support new learning experiences. It outlines some of the challenges with the current SCORM standard, including supporting offline and mobile learning. Emerging standards like Project Tin Can, ADL Flex, and AICC CMI 5 aim to address these challenges with approaches like activity streams that can represent a wider range of learning activities and contexts. The document advocates that learning standards should focus more on how learners interact with content in a social, connected way.
Project Tin Can is the probable next generation of SCORM. Project Tin Can was unveiled to the public in this presentation given at LEEF 2011. This presentation introduced the concept of a Learning Record Store (LRS) as well as the Actor-Verb-Object Activity Stream representation of learning experiences. More into at http://scorm.com/tincan
2011 Learning Age – SCORM for Games and Simulations – Mike RusticiRustici Software
This document discusses how SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) can be used for games and simulations. It provides examples of how SCORM data can be captured for different learning activities like completing courses, teaching courses, attending events, participating in simulations, and more. It also outlines some limitations of the current SCORM standard and introduces new specifications like Tin Can and ADL Flex that aim to address these limitations and expand what can be tracked for learning activities.
This document provides a history of SCORM and the development of new capabilities enabled by the Experience API (Tin Can API). It discusses how the API allows for simpler content that can run from anywhere, including on mobile devices and in disconnected environments. The API also enables new types of learning activities like games and simulations. The document promotes wider adoption of the API through participation in its development and by asking learning technology vendors to support it.
This document discusses various topics related to mLearning including plumbing, sanitation, mobile learning, simulations, educational games, performance support, tracking real world activities, offline content, security and authentication, and the future of learning being more open and data-driven. It promotes Project Tin Can and its next generation capabilities for tracking learning beyond traditional eLearning. The document is authored by Mike Rustici and provides contact information to ask questions.
The document discusses how people interact and connect through online networks and platforms. It explores concepts like community building, participation, collaboration, and facilitation in digital spaces. Examples mentioned include social networks, blogs, virtual worlds, comments, and tools that enable sharing and connection across the internet.
Tim Martin presented on Project Tin Can at the ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 conference. Project Tin Can is a new specification that aims to track learning activities across different systems and devices. It allows for on the fly entity creation, device transitions, and decoupled data models to address limitations of previous specifications like SCORM. However, fully realizing its potential will require addressing challenges like out of browser experiences, offline access, security, and alternate device formats.
This document discusses the need to evolve beyond SCORM to support new learning experiences. It outlines some of the challenges with the current SCORM standard, including supporting offline and mobile learning. Emerging standards like Project Tin Can, ADL Flex, and AICC CMI 5 aim to address these challenges with approaches like activity streams that can represent a wider range of learning activities and contexts. The document advocates that learning standards should focus more on how learners interact with content in a social, connected way.
Project Tin Can is the probable next generation of SCORM. Project Tin Can was unveiled to the public in this presentation given at LEEF 2011. This presentation introduced the concept of a Learning Record Store (LRS) as well as the Actor-Verb-Object Activity Stream representation of learning experiences. More into at http://scorm.com/tincan
2011 Learning Age – SCORM for Games and Simulations – Mike RusticiRustici Software
This document discusses how SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) can be used for games and simulations. It provides examples of how SCORM data can be captured for different learning activities like completing courses, teaching courses, attending events, participating in simulations, and more. It also outlines some limitations of the current SCORM standard and introduces new specifications like Tin Can and ADL Flex that aim to address these limitations and expand what can be tracked for learning activities.
This document provides a history of SCORM and the development of new capabilities enabled by the Experience API (Tin Can API). It discusses how the API allows for simpler content that can run from anywhere, including on mobile devices and in disconnected environments. The API also enables new types of learning activities like games and simulations. The document promotes wider adoption of the API through participation in its development and by asking learning technology vendors to support it.
This document discusses various topics related to mLearning including plumbing, sanitation, mobile learning, simulations, educational games, performance support, tracking real world activities, offline content, security and authentication, and the future of learning being more open and data-driven. It promotes Project Tin Can and its next generation capabilities for tracking learning beyond traditional eLearning. The document is authored by Mike Rustici and provides contact information to ask questions.
The document discusses how people interact and connect through online networks and platforms. It explores concepts like community building, participation, collaboration, and facilitation in digital spaces. Examples mentioned include social networks, blogs, virtual worlds, comments, and tools that enable sharing and connection across the internet.
This document discusses SCORM and the Tin Can API. It begins by providing background on SCORM versions and certification. It then discusses key concepts enabled by the Tin Can API, such as tracking user experiences and data across different applications and devices. The document concludes by providing contact information for the presenter, Mike Rustici, and resources for learning more about the Tin Can API through its website and ADL initiative.
2011 LEEF – SCORM for Games and Simulations – Mike RusticiRustici Software
The document discusses SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) for games and simulations. It provides an overview of SCORM's success and challenges in supporting simulations. It also discusses standards and projects that aim to address limitations in SCORM, such as ADL Flex, Project Tin Can, AICC CMI 5, and LETSI RTWS. The document advocates for a simple yet powerful approach to tracking simulation interactions and outcomes.
2012 DevLearn – Breaking the Shackles of Scorm – Tim MartinRustici Software
The document discusses how the Tin Can API aims to break from SCORM, which has become outdated and presents obstacles that hinder software and organizational development. It presents stories to illustrate issues with SCORM and how the Tin Can API seeks to better support learning experiences by allowing systems to share data about user activities in a standardized way. The Tin Can API has moved beyond an idea and into reality, but its progression relies on users demanding improvements over the status quo.
The document discusses the TinCanAPI, which allows learning experiences to be tracked across different systems and devices without requiring a browser or learning management system. It can track both formal and informal learning experiences, including real world activities and simulations. Data about learning experiences is stored and shared using a Learning Record Store, which will allow learning performance to be correlated with training. The TinCanAPI enables a future ecosystem where all learning experiences can be tracked.
2013 Learning Technologies UK – Enabling Data Flow in Learning – Tim MartinRustici Software
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.
2013 Middle Tennessee ASTD – Tin Can – Andy WhitakerRustici Software
The document appears to be a presentation about the Tin Can API. It discusses connecting learning experiences across different systems and platforms like mobile apps, simulations, games and tracking real world activities. It also talks about opportunities to free data by consolidating LMSs, providing training data portability and creating a personal data locker. The final layer discussed correlates performance with training. The presentation is given by Andy Whitaker from Tin Can API.
The document discusses the Tin Can API, which launched in June 2012 and aims to provide a shared language for capturing learning experiences across different systems. It had 47 adopters as of February 2013. The Tin Can API allows learning experiences to be recorded as statements containing information about an actor, verb, and object. These statements can be stored in a Learning Record Store (LRS) and shared across different LMSs, applications, and systems to provide a complete picture of a learner's activities and achievements. The document provides examples of how different types of learning activities and interactions could be recorded as statements using the Tin Can API.
This document discusses how Tin Can APIs can be used to improve learning and business goals. It begins by explaining how SCORM has constrained course design by requiring courses to live within an LMS and only track certain data. Tin Can allows for more flexible design by using an LRS-centric architecture to port activity data. Examples are given of how Tin Can could be used to reduce infection rates by improving hand washing training or decrease training costs by providing learning in context. The document concludes by posing questions about how to identify opportunities, activities, and outcomes to design feedback loops that iteratively improve learning and business goals using real-time analytics from an LRS.
2013 ASTD TechKnowledge Case Studies – Aaron SilversRustici Software
The document discusses the Transitioning and Learning Architecture (TLA), which is intended to replace SCORM and focus on lifelong learning beyond just formal courses. The TLA includes Experience API for tracking learning experiences, learner profiles, content brokering, and competency networks. It emphasizes open source solutions and getting involved in the developer community to help evolve specifications and transition systems to support the new architecture.
2/26/13 - Training industry Webinar - Mike RusticiRustici Software
The document discusses the Tin Can API and how it connects learning experiences. It covers topics like mobile learning, simulations, educational games, performance support, tracking real world activities, offline and long-running content, security and authentication, content analytics, training data portability, and correlating performance with training. The Tin Can API aims to free learning data and connect different systems through the use of a learning record store.
Rethinking Learning Systems with Tin Can — Learning Leaders Roundtable, 4/3/1...Rustici Software
The document discusses the Tin Can API and how it is rethinking learning systems by moving to a new LRS-centric architecture. It proposes 4 layers: 1) fixing SCORM, 2) allowing any learning to be tracked by LMSes, 3) introducing a new class of LRS software, and 4) enabling correlation across systems. This new architecture shifts the focus to learning record stores and allows learning to be tracked across different systems and experiences.
How Tin Can API Can Bring Us Closer to Personalized LearningMegan Bowe
The document discusses the Tin Can API and how it enables personalized learning experiences through capturing learning activities in standardized statements that can be shared across different systems and applications. It explains that the Tin Can API has grown out of the limitations of SCORM in supporting today's more interconnected learning environments. At a high level, the Tin Can API allows learning activities to be captured as statements describing what the learner did, and these statements are stored in a learning record store (LRS) that can be accessed by different tools and applications to power personalized and just-in-time learning experiences.
Rethinking learning systems with Tin Can API - 4/15/13Rustici Software
The document discusses how the Tin Can API framework can connect learning experiences across different systems by enabling the transfer of learning data between systems, capturing learning data from any source, and allowing learning to occur outside of traditional learning management systems (LMS). Key benefits include freeing learning data from isolated systems and enabling new types of analytics based on a more complete view of a learner's activities and experiences.
Your Systems Need to Talk: What is the Tin Can API?Megan Bowe
1) The document discusses how different systems within organizations operate as silos, unable to share information about users' activities and performance. It introduces the TinCan API as a way to connect these systems and allow them to exchange learning data.
2) The TinCan API and learning record stores allow organizations to track individual users' full learning paths across multiple systems. This provides insights to better support learning and performance goals.
3) The document provides examples of how tracking detailed learning data can help businesses reduce costs and improve outcomes in areas like healthcare, education, and employee training.
Brian Miller is one of the world’s top Tin Can experts, will be presenting a technically oriented webinar that will take a deep-dive into each part of a Tin Can statement.
Topics that Brian will cover:
• Actor/Agent
• Verbs
• Activities
• Objects
• Attachments
• Context
• Result
• Extensions
• Others
Tin Can API: The Language of Action (from D-Conf 2013) - Mike RusticiRustici Software
The document discusses the Tin Can API and its role in connecting learning experiences. It notes that the API will help modernize aging learning management systems and enable the separation and specialization of learning components. This will allow for a more complete picture of learning by facilitating the capture of informal learning data from a variety of sources and systems. The API's support for personal data lockers and socialized learning is also expected to shift ownership of learning data to individuals.
Corporate and higher education. Two industries that, in the past, have had a clear divide with very little crossover. The difference in goals, learning styles and objectives paved the way for differing learning technologies platforms to evolve. Now, those stark lines are blurring as both sides are discovering they have content that’s relevant to the other.
Join Tammy Rutherford as she walks through the pros and cons of corporate and higher ed collaborating. And the challenges of these different technology platforms working together for a brighter future.
SCORM. xAPI. cmi5. LTI. AICC. Talk about alphabet soup! Just keeping up with these acronyms and standards can be difficult enough, but deciding which learning standard is best for your content and while working with the technologies in your ecosystem is even more challenging. But don’t worry, Joe Donnelly and Brian Miller are here to help you blend your content goals and choose a standard to meet them.
This document discusses SCORM and the Tin Can API. It begins by providing background on SCORM versions and certification. It then discusses key concepts enabled by the Tin Can API, such as tracking user experiences and data across different applications and devices. The document concludes by providing contact information for the presenter, Mike Rustici, and resources for learning more about the Tin Can API through its website and ADL initiative.
2011 LEEF – SCORM for Games and Simulations – Mike RusticiRustici Software
The document discusses SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) for games and simulations. It provides an overview of SCORM's success and challenges in supporting simulations. It also discusses standards and projects that aim to address limitations in SCORM, such as ADL Flex, Project Tin Can, AICC CMI 5, and LETSI RTWS. The document advocates for a simple yet powerful approach to tracking simulation interactions and outcomes.
2012 DevLearn – Breaking the Shackles of Scorm – Tim MartinRustici Software
The document discusses how the Tin Can API aims to break from SCORM, which has become outdated and presents obstacles that hinder software and organizational development. It presents stories to illustrate issues with SCORM and how the Tin Can API seeks to better support learning experiences by allowing systems to share data about user activities in a standardized way. The Tin Can API has moved beyond an idea and into reality, but its progression relies on users demanding improvements over the status quo.
The document discusses the TinCanAPI, which allows learning experiences to be tracked across different systems and devices without requiring a browser or learning management system. It can track both formal and informal learning experiences, including real world activities and simulations. Data about learning experiences is stored and shared using a Learning Record Store, which will allow learning performance to be correlated with training. The TinCanAPI enables a future ecosystem where all learning experiences can be tracked.
2013 Learning Technologies UK – Enabling Data Flow in Learning – Tim MartinRustici Software
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.
2013 Middle Tennessee ASTD – Tin Can – Andy WhitakerRustici Software
The document appears to be a presentation about the Tin Can API. It discusses connecting learning experiences across different systems and platforms like mobile apps, simulations, games and tracking real world activities. It also talks about opportunities to free data by consolidating LMSs, providing training data portability and creating a personal data locker. The final layer discussed correlates performance with training. The presentation is given by Andy Whitaker from Tin Can API.
The document discusses the Tin Can API, which launched in June 2012 and aims to provide a shared language for capturing learning experiences across different systems. It had 47 adopters as of February 2013. The Tin Can API allows learning experiences to be recorded as statements containing information about an actor, verb, and object. These statements can be stored in a Learning Record Store (LRS) and shared across different LMSs, applications, and systems to provide a complete picture of a learner's activities and achievements. The document provides examples of how different types of learning activities and interactions could be recorded as statements using the Tin Can API.
This document discusses how Tin Can APIs can be used to improve learning and business goals. It begins by explaining how SCORM has constrained course design by requiring courses to live within an LMS and only track certain data. Tin Can allows for more flexible design by using an LRS-centric architecture to port activity data. Examples are given of how Tin Can could be used to reduce infection rates by improving hand washing training or decrease training costs by providing learning in context. The document concludes by posing questions about how to identify opportunities, activities, and outcomes to design feedback loops that iteratively improve learning and business goals using real-time analytics from an LRS.
2013 ASTD TechKnowledge Case Studies – Aaron SilversRustici Software
The document discusses the Transitioning and Learning Architecture (TLA), which is intended to replace SCORM and focus on lifelong learning beyond just formal courses. The TLA includes Experience API for tracking learning experiences, learner profiles, content brokering, and competency networks. It emphasizes open source solutions and getting involved in the developer community to help evolve specifications and transition systems to support the new architecture.
2/26/13 - Training industry Webinar - Mike RusticiRustici Software
The document discusses the Tin Can API and how it connects learning experiences. It covers topics like mobile learning, simulations, educational games, performance support, tracking real world activities, offline and long-running content, security and authentication, content analytics, training data portability, and correlating performance with training. The Tin Can API aims to free learning data and connect different systems through the use of a learning record store.
Rethinking Learning Systems with Tin Can — Learning Leaders Roundtable, 4/3/1...Rustici Software
The document discusses the Tin Can API and how it is rethinking learning systems by moving to a new LRS-centric architecture. It proposes 4 layers: 1) fixing SCORM, 2) allowing any learning to be tracked by LMSes, 3) introducing a new class of LRS software, and 4) enabling correlation across systems. This new architecture shifts the focus to learning record stores and allows learning to be tracked across different systems and experiences.
How Tin Can API Can Bring Us Closer to Personalized LearningMegan Bowe
The document discusses the Tin Can API and how it enables personalized learning experiences through capturing learning activities in standardized statements that can be shared across different systems and applications. It explains that the Tin Can API has grown out of the limitations of SCORM in supporting today's more interconnected learning environments. At a high level, the Tin Can API allows learning activities to be captured as statements describing what the learner did, and these statements are stored in a learning record store (LRS) that can be accessed by different tools and applications to power personalized and just-in-time learning experiences.
Rethinking learning systems with Tin Can API - 4/15/13Rustici Software
The document discusses how the Tin Can API framework can connect learning experiences across different systems by enabling the transfer of learning data between systems, capturing learning data from any source, and allowing learning to occur outside of traditional learning management systems (LMS). Key benefits include freeing learning data from isolated systems and enabling new types of analytics based on a more complete view of a learner's activities and experiences.
Your Systems Need to Talk: What is the Tin Can API?Megan Bowe
1) The document discusses how different systems within organizations operate as silos, unable to share information about users' activities and performance. It introduces the TinCan API as a way to connect these systems and allow them to exchange learning data.
2) The TinCan API and learning record stores allow organizations to track individual users' full learning paths across multiple systems. This provides insights to better support learning and performance goals.
3) The document provides examples of how tracking detailed learning data can help businesses reduce costs and improve outcomes in areas like healthcare, education, and employee training.
Brian Miller is one of the world’s top Tin Can experts, will be presenting a technically oriented webinar that will take a deep-dive into each part of a Tin Can statement.
Topics that Brian will cover:
• Actor/Agent
• Verbs
• Activities
• Objects
• Attachments
• Context
• Result
• Extensions
• Others
Tin Can API: The Language of Action (from D-Conf 2013) - Mike RusticiRustici Software
The document discusses the Tin Can API and its role in connecting learning experiences. It notes that the API will help modernize aging learning management systems and enable the separation and specialization of learning components. This will allow for a more complete picture of learning by facilitating the capture of informal learning data from a variety of sources and systems. The API's support for personal data lockers and socialized learning is also expected to shift ownership of learning data to individuals.
Corporate and higher education. Two industries that, in the past, have had a clear divide with very little crossover. The difference in goals, learning styles and objectives paved the way for differing learning technologies platforms to evolve. Now, those stark lines are blurring as both sides are discovering they have content that’s relevant to the other.
Join Tammy Rutherford as she walks through the pros and cons of corporate and higher ed collaborating. And the challenges of these different technology platforms working together for a brighter future.
SCORM. xAPI. cmi5. LTI. AICC. Talk about alphabet soup! Just keeping up with these acronyms and standards can be difficult enough, but deciding which learning standard is best for your content and while working with the technologies in your ecosystem is even more challenging. But don’t worry, Joe Donnelly and Brian Miller are here to help you blend your content goals and choose a standard to meet them.
Our IEEE LTSC voting members recap 2023 and what’s next for the standardsRustici Software
What better way to kick-off 2024 than to talk about eLearning standards? Okay, maybe not everyone gets as excited about discussing the latest news about acronyms like SCORM, xAPI or cmi5 as we do. No matter your standards enthusiasm, be sure to catch our latest webinar with IEEE LTSC voting members Chris Tompkins and Brian Miller sharing what happened in the standards world in 2023 and what may transpire in the future.
Always have an exit plan: Questing to limit SCORM lost completionsRustici Software
Has your party has ever experienced not getting rollup status reported back, missing learner data, confusion over what to look for in a debug log or concerns with SCORM 2004 3rd Edition? Then join Dungeon Master Joe Donnelly and Ranger Kyle Patmor as they quest to limit lost SCORM completions in this webinar!
Egg-cellent Ways Content Controller Helps Your Organization’s Training NeedsRustici Software
In this egg-citing webinar, Chris Tompkins, Director of Sales, and Elizabeth Mohr, Client Success Manager, are putting their ducks in a row to chat about what our customers’ favorite Content Controller features are and discuss new and innovative ways they’re using it to save time, cut costs and solve internal and external training needs. However, we aren’t responsible for their fowl bird puns.
RIP to Manual Course Packaging: How SANS Streamlines Content DistributionRustici Software
Are you buried in work from managing a growing course catalog? See how delivering and maintaining training across multiple systems doesn’t have to leave you feeling like a zombie. You’ll hear how the SANS Institute shifted their content distribution model to save hundreds of administration hours, ensure accuracy for high risk content, protect intellectual property, and gain visibility into course utilization.
Ready to get pedantic? Picking the best verb for StatementsRustici Software
You know the English verb you think describes your experience, but you can’t find an xAPI verb with an identifier that matches it. You’ve found other xAPI verbs that seem similar, but you want to use the verb you have in mind. What do you do?
Listen to Brian Miller as he dives into semantics and how that plays into making sure the data you generate is useful and usable across systems. He’ll discuss natural language and how that impacts semantic interoperability.
Ask Me Anything: Using eLearning Standards when creating contentRustici Software
We’ve always embraced the “Ask Us Anything” motto at Rustici, but now we’re bringing it to you in a whole new way: a live webinar. After all, one of the best ways to learn something new, or new tricks, is by hearing what questions your fellow content creators are asking – and learning the answers.
Listen to Andy Whitaker and Brian Miller as they answer your pressing SCORM, xAPI and cmi5 standards questions that arise while creating content. Whether you’re just starting to learn about standards, using xAPI tracking capabilities or considering if cmi5 is right for your organization, Andy and Brian are here to help.
Meeting in the Middle: A Blended Approach to Learning TechRustici Software
This document summarizes a presentation about taking a blended approach to managing learning tools and platforms. It discusses establishing three core "hubs" - a content hub to store and distribute learning content from various sources, a systems hub to facilitate access to different learning systems and applications, and a reporting hub to collect and analyze learning data across tools. Setting up integrated hubs in this way can bring order to complex learning ecosystems that typically involve many different technologies, and ensure content, activities and data can be shared across systems. Key considerations for organizations approaching this include identifying stakeholders, existing relevant systems, and functional ownership as well as assessing tool capabilities and integration options.
Smelling what The Rock's cooking: Converting SCORM content to cmi5Rustici Software
You have loads of existing SCORM content, but now you're ready to start using xAPI for getting a ton of data about your learners. But, you still need your content to be played securely in an LMS with their authorized learners. So how do you move from SCORM to xAPI while maintaining interoperability? If this sounds familiar, cmi5 could be your answer.
In this session, George Vilches talks briefly about what cmi5 is and when to use the specification before diving into converting legacy SCORM content to cmi5 using various approaches, including utilizing the cmi5 CATAPULT course templates and authoring tools or building custom courseware. He also discusses SCORM to cmi5 terminology, what happens through the lifecycle of a learner's course launch and using cmi5 with other xAPI Profiles, like the Video Profile.
Tales from the trails: Navigating a proven path from content creation to dist...Rustici Software
There’s more than one way to navigate through content creation and distribution. Listen to Joe Donnelly and Andy Whitaker as they guide you through all your options for creating, packaging, and distributing content for learners.
Content Controller: The easiest way to share content with your customersRustici Software
Listen to Andy Whitaker share show you how to distribute your training content without losing control over your valuable intellectual property. He will walk you through how to use Content Controller to give your customers access to your courses and no longer have to worry about manually keeping up with how customers are using your content.
Learn more about Content Controller: https://rusticisoftware.com/products/content-controller/
Content Controller: The easiest way to centralize content across your learnin...Rustici Software
Listen to Andy Whitaker share how to help you organize your training content library and centralize all your learning materials into a common course catalog. He will walk you through how to use Content Controller so you can tackle the challenges that come up when you need content to work across multiple systems. See how you can upload new content versions in a snap and bid farewell to manually uploading content into multiple LMSs.
Learn more about Content Controller: https://rusticisoftware.com/products/content-controller/
Another Learning Standard? Where cmi5 Fits with SCORM and xAPIRustici Software
This document discusses cmi5, a new eLearning standard that bridges the gaps between SCORM and xAPI. Cmi5 defines a common set of verbs and rules for structuring xAPI statements to ensure interoperability across systems. It includes capabilities for structured content launches, wider session structures, and controlling exit behavior. The document outlines cmi5's overlaps with SCORM and xAPI, previews a cmi5 prototype player and conformance test suite under development through Project CATAPULT, and encourages adoption of cmi5.
By the Numbers: A Behind the Scenes Look at xAPI and cmi5 AdoptionRustici Software
Every business is investing its time and money on the next emerging technology trend. The challenge is how to effectively move forward with solutions to problems they face today when the next technology has yet to be widely adopted. This is exactly what the L&D industry is facing with the emergence of the next eLearning standard, xAPI.
Chris Tompkins, Director of Sales at Rustici Software, gave this presentation at xAPI Cohort during the Fall 2020 Virtual Party.
Back to the Drawing Board: Painting a Picture with xAPIRustici Software
Whether you’re new to xAPI or need a refresher on the basics, we’re going back to the drawing board both figuratively and literally. We’ll explain key concepts and even incorporate a fun, interactive drawing game to help you understand what xAPI is and how to use it.
Chris Tompkins, Director of Sales, and Joe Donnelly, Customer Support Manager at Rustici Software, will illustrate key xAPI concepts. You’ll leave with a complete picture of how xAPI works and how it can benefit your organization.
Whether you’re new to SCORM or need a refresher on the basics, we’re going back to the drawing board both figuratively and literally. We’ll explain key concepts and even incorporate a fun, interactive drawing game to help you understand what SCORM is and best practices for using this standard.
Chris Tompkins, Director of Sales, and Joe Donnelly, Customer Support Manager at Rustici Software, will illustrate key SCORM communication concepts. You’ll leave with a complete picture of how SCORM works and our insights gained over the years having worked closely with the standard across all of its different versions.
Listen to Chris Tompkins, Director of Sales at Rustici Software, share why he’s passionate about xAPI, the thinking behind the development of xAPI itself, and why it is set to transform the way we all learn.
Extending Your Reach: Taking Your Training Content Beyond Your LMSRustici Software
Creating, sharing, and maintaining valuable and accurate product training is critical, but managing this can quickly become more time-consuming and labor-intensive than you realize when you’re working with multiple LMSs and people that use other training systems. Whether you manage multiple LMSs supporting external learners or across internal platforms, you’ll need a strategy for handling the various system behaviors and learner experiences you’ll encounter.
Listen to Tammy Rutherford, Director of Accounts and Marketing at Rustici Software, discuss the considerations for distributing training across multiple systems, including learner access, content delivery, course version control, and reporting.
9. To The Rescue
• ADL
– FLEX
– Project Tin Can
• AICC
– CMI 5
– PENS
• LETSI
– RTWS
– CaaS
• IMS
– Common Cartridge
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– LTI
25. Mike taught
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
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26. Crew #8 attended
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
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27. Johnny participated in
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
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28. Ben authored
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
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29. Mike taught
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
Crew #8 attended
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
Johnny participated in
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
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Ben authored
“SCORM For Simulations at LEEF 2011”
31. I
Watched
“Kahn Academy, Pattern of US Cold War
Interventions”
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32. I
Read
“The Cold War: A Military History”, by
Ambrose, Carr, Fleming et al
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33. I
Passed
“The End of the Cold War”,
University of Georgia - History 4091
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34. I
Simulated
The Cuban Missile Crisis as Robert
McNamara
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35. I
Played
Negotiation in Motion
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36. I
Experienced
Berlin Wall in Second Life
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37. I
Was Mentored
By Stephen Ambrose
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38. I
Blogged
“My Childhood and the Cold War”
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39. I Watched “Kahn Academy, Pattern of US
Cold War Interventions”
I Read “The Cold War: A Military History”, by
Ambrose, Carr, Fleming et al
I Passed “The End of the Cold
War”, University of Georgia - History 4091
I Simulated The Cuban Missile Crisis as
Robert McNamara
I Played Negotiation in Motion
cc image from Joe Lencioni on flickr I Experienced Berlin Wall in Second Life
I Was Mentored By Stephen Ambrose
I Blogged “My Childhood and the Cold War”
44. Professor Smith gave Mike
an A on
“Impacts of the Cold War on Explosive
Technology”
45. Professor Smith gave Team 2
a B on
“Impacts of the Cold War on Explosive
Technology”
46. Team 2 wrote “Impacts of the Cold War
on Explosive Technology”
Mike edited “Impacts of the Cold War on
Explosive Technology”
Professor Smith graded “Impacts of the
Cold War on Explosive Technology”
Professor Smith gave Mike an A on
“Impacts of the Cold War on Explosive
Technology”
Professor Smith gave Team 2 a B on
“Impacts of the Cold War on Explosive
Technology”
48. cc image from Whole Wheat Toast on flickr
• Out of Browser Experiences
• Offline and Occasionally Connected
• Cross Domain
• Alternate devices and formats
(mobile)
• Security
• Decoupled data models
49. I Did This
Noun Verb Object
Somebody In Context Well /
I Did This On June 17
says that Of ____ Poorly
Asserted
Noun Verb Object Target With Result Timestamp
By
53. Mike Rustici
mike@scorm.com * @mike_rustici
Ben Clark
ben.clark@scorm.com
Project Tin Can
http://www.scorm.com/tincan * @projecttincan
ADL Flex
https://sites.google.com/a/adlnet.gov/future-learning-experience-
project/home * @lrnEXP
LETSI RTWS
http://www.letsi.org * @letsi
AICC CMI 5
http://aicc.org
Editor's Notes
This isn’t SCORM 101This isn’t how to implement SCORMThis is about the future of SCORMShould we change it?
Why are you here?What do you want to get out of this presentation?Who do you train and how do you train them?============Who is an instructional designer / game designer?Who is a developer?What else are you?Who knows what SCORM is?Who has implemented SCORM?Who has had problems implementing SCORM?
SCORM has been great for online trainingThe friction it has removed has enabled literally thousands of companies to work togetherWorld wide adoptionDe Facto industry standard, that only happens because it works well for the problem it solves
-There are many things it does well, but namely the web-based page turner-It does what it was intended to do….the things that were commonplace ten years ago
E-learning today: page turnersOften not much more engaging than plain textNot necessarily a standards problem, but they don’t help either
---web browser dependency---javascript---temporal session---single user---no concept of instructor / facilitator---constant internet connection presence---data model must be shoe-horned---attempt-centric nature doesn't lend itself to playing until you improve---assets must be delivered to and installed on LMS---any tracking implies results submission---general incompatibilities
----who the players are----they are communicating and working together (mostly)----each solving a different piece of the puzzle----we feel your pain, solutions are addressing the roadblocks
Create a learning experience APIThree phasesWrapped up formal outreach, presenting preliminary conclusions and design for feedback now
Keep It SimpleGive Me PowerHow can we make everybody happy?
Simplicity and Power are inherently at odds with one another, how to overcome?Core Design Tenants---simplest case, get somebody up and running 8-8, 8 pages and less than 8 hours---enable complexity for those who want it, but hide it from those who don't need it---put burden of complexity on those most able to handle it and those who need it---remove constraints of traditional SCORM---backwards compatibility where it makes sense
Simple English sentence captures the essence of a learning experienceEnglish is a great example of simple by powerful and extensible
The essence of all this mess it at it’s core I Did This
API structured as a simple expression of Noun Verb ObjectProposed TCAPI is a technical binding to this simple conceptConceptually, each of these words is an extensible bucket of different concepts to expressWill come back to the tech stuff if you want, but first let’s look at what this structure can express
Hey, I'm reporting my own dataUseful at times, although in this example, we might not want to take Mike’s word for it
Wait, there's more than on person in Crew #8
watch one, do one, teach one – learning is about doing different things
this means Mike actually did what he was trained to do, ties performance data back to learning
Hark, a simulation
Learning happens outside the computer
Two things to notice that are implicit in those statements that represent very different assumptions from today’s model:On the Fly Creation – LRS can receive records for people and experiences it didn’t previously know about“This” is not tied to the actual content, but rather a pointer to the content. The thing reporting the result doesn’t have to be the actual thing delivering the experience.Think about how this relates to simulations and scenarios
Let’s mix them all up now and see what’s possible
There are many aspects of a learning experience, let's take this session, many lenses
Let’s start with our last example, me teaching this session
Learning isn't always structured, it happens everywhere
*this* described by URL, it’s just a YouTube video
*this* described by a bibliographical citation
Starting to form a transcript of my recorded learning experiences
It’s not all about me
What sentences are missing?
Other things to noticed that result from the technical architecture we are considering
What we’re ironing out now.Complexity #1: sentences aren’t always quite this simple. Did you noticed I cheated on some of them?How do we express all of the bottom boxes without introducing unnecessary complexity?How do we express sub-sentences and related details?
Trying to take advantage of a strong association with concepts from Activity Streams
I Learned This BookmarkletRead This Kindle ButtonFourSquare check in for learning activitiesRecord a feed of learning activity, class blog, class discussion thread, facebook account, calendar - activity streams connection...track the feed identify expertsResults feed as a feedback loop for content authorsWhat else?