This document discusses the potential for EPUB 3 and xAPI (Tin Can API) to serve as an open platform for activity-based mobile learning. It describes how EPUB 3 adopts HTML5 as a content format, allowing for greater interactivity. Early prototypes have demonstrated mapping learning activities and assessments to EPUB 3 pages and using xAPI to track learning interactions and outcomes. The document argues that together, EPUB 3 and xAPI could modernize and carry forward concepts from SCORM in a more sustainable way for mobile learning delivery.
How xAPI is going to bring "electricity" to learning !Bill McDonald
(Presented at Seattle Meetup "vNext" Sept 15, 2015)
xAPI is an exciting new communication interoperability standard that will have a huge effect on all types of learning in the future. It is like bringing “electricity” into your “house of learning”! This presentation will provide an overview of what xAPI is, where it came from, and what it can do to enhance all kinds of learning experiences and outcomes. Topics will also include the underlying technology and features of xAPI and why they represent significant improvements.
Integrating hat content into mobile app lavaconNeil Perlin
Describes how to use traditional help authoring tools like Flare and RoboHelp as data portals for native mobile apps, and discusses some of the design issues involved in using content designed for online help in a completely different environment - mobile.
D2L Brightspace Vendor Integrations: Technology and TerminologyD2L Barry
Presentation at 2019 D2L Connection at Normandale CC on April 5, 2019
D2L Brightspace Vendor Integrations: Technology and Terminology- Jonathan Werth, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System Office
Practical strategies for incorporating rich media in digital productsApex CoVantage
How are publishers incorporating interactive and rich media content in their publications? See seven practical strategies.
This presentation was originally presented at PIAM in Frankfurt, Germany in 2015. Learn more at www.apexcovantage.com
Troubleshooting: The Two Laws - IXIASOFT User Conference 2016IXIASOFT
Presented by Alex Kozaris, IXIASOFT IT Specialist at the IXIASOFT User Conference 2016.
Murphy’s Law says that if something can go wrong, it will. But don’t let Murphy tell you what to do; instead come to this presentation where Alex will take you through effective troubleshooting procedures for the issues that he commonly sees with his extensive experience of solving issues involving the IXIASOFT DITA CMS.
Connecting Intelligent Content with Micropublishing and BeyondDon Day
This presentation will describe and demonstrate a grand unified vision for pulling together different kinds of single-page products for the Web, for print, and more. Lessons from this model can give you an edge in market-leading adoption of the next great thing after micropublishing, the current trend.
How xAPI is going to bring "electricity" to learning !Bill McDonald
(Presented at Seattle Meetup "vNext" Sept 15, 2015)
xAPI is an exciting new communication interoperability standard that will have a huge effect on all types of learning in the future. It is like bringing “electricity” into your “house of learning”! This presentation will provide an overview of what xAPI is, where it came from, and what it can do to enhance all kinds of learning experiences and outcomes. Topics will also include the underlying technology and features of xAPI and why they represent significant improvements.
Integrating hat content into mobile app lavaconNeil Perlin
Describes how to use traditional help authoring tools like Flare and RoboHelp as data portals for native mobile apps, and discusses some of the design issues involved in using content designed for online help in a completely different environment - mobile.
D2L Brightspace Vendor Integrations: Technology and TerminologyD2L Barry
Presentation at 2019 D2L Connection at Normandale CC on April 5, 2019
D2L Brightspace Vendor Integrations: Technology and Terminology- Jonathan Werth, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System Office
Practical strategies for incorporating rich media in digital productsApex CoVantage
How are publishers incorporating interactive and rich media content in their publications? See seven practical strategies.
This presentation was originally presented at PIAM in Frankfurt, Germany in 2015. Learn more at www.apexcovantage.com
Troubleshooting: The Two Laws - IXIASOFT User Conference 2016IXIASOFT
Presented by Alex Kozaris, IXIASOFT IT Specialist at the IXIASOFT User Conference 2016.
Murphy’s Law says that if something can go wrong, it will. But don’t let Murphy tell you what to do; instead come to this presentation where Alex will take you through effective troubleshooting procedures for the issues that he commonly sees with his extensive experience of solving issues involving the IXIASOFT DITA CMS.
Connecting Intelligent Content with Micropublishing and BeyondDon Day
This presentation will describe and demonstrate a grand unified vision for pulling together different kinds of single-page products for the Web, for print, and more. Lessons from this model can give you an edge in market-leading adoption of the next great thing after micropublishing, the current trend.
SCORM, which has been the de facto standard for publishing, launching, and tracking eLearning on learning management systems, is not properly equipped to manage non-traditional learning that is mobile and informal. Experience API, or xAPI, however, provides the eLearning community an interface that is able to collect and record details from any learning experience in one central location, regardless of where the learning takes place. With xAPI’s extreme potential to improve the way learning is captured and administered, it is vital for eLearning professionals to understand:
- xAPI’s capabilities for managing mobile, non-traditional learning
- SCORM’s place in the future of eLearning
- Integration of xAPI into HTML5 for tracking user activity within currently-adopted LMS or LRS
- Real world examples of xAPI implementation
Currently Experience API (xAPI) mostly focuses on providing “structural” interoperability of xAPI statements via JavaScript Object Notation Language (JSON). Structural interoperability defines the syntax of the data exchange and ensures the data exchanged between systems can be interpreted at the data field level. In comparison, semantic interoperability leverages the structural interoperability of the data exchange, but provides a vocabulary so other systems and consumers can also interpret the data. Analytics produced by xAPI statements would benefit from more consistent and semantic approaches to describing domain-specific verbs, activityTypes, attachments, and extensions. The xAPI specification recommends implementers to adopt community-defined vocabularies, but the only current guidance is to provide very basic, human-readable identifier metadata (e.g., literal string name(display), description). The main objective of the Vocabulary and Semantic Interoperability Working Group (WG) is to research machine-readable, semantic technologies (e.g., RDF, JSON-LD) in order to produce guidance for Communities of Practice (CoPs) on creating, publishing, or managing controlled vocabulary datasets (e.g., verbs). In this session, you will see a brief introduction to modern controlled vocabulary practices and how they can be applied to xAPI to add semantic expressiveness of controlled vocabularies. The progress and resources from the Vocabulary WG (started in April 2015) will also be shared.
IEEE ADB Update - xAPI Camp March 2015RePubIT Inc.
John Costa is CEO of RePubIT, an Interactive eBook Prototyping Studio and chairs three open-standards committees, including the IEEE IC12 Industry Connections Committee ADB (IEEE Actionable Data Book & ePub3) effort. The group is developing an open architecture for standardizing interactive eBooks, active widgets and xAPI. Current xAPI development involves integration of the ePub3 to dashboards of various learning record stores including real-time updates back to the epub itself. We are actively seeking new members. Contact me directly at jbcosta@repubit.com.
xAPI Camp-Orlando was a one-day event showcasing what’s possible with xAPI. Coinciding with Learning Solutions 2015, on March, 24 2015, we gathered 100+ technology leaders at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training. This was a day filled with case studies, problem solving and networking. We connected participants to answers they could act on and a community that helps them make an impact.
We were at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training, located at 3100 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826.
ADL’s recent research review uncovered the fact that very few actual ID models for mobile learning truly exist. Instead of creating a new ID model, they have presented a framework that can be used to incorporate mobile learning considerations into existing ID models and agile approaches to optimize them for the mobile learner. Ideally, instructional designers should now consider focusing on new opportunities for improving performance and augmenting skills, not just on knowledge transfer.
The flexible approach proposed by the framework takes both instruction and performance support into consideration for the mobile learning task or challenge at hand. This session will provide you with ADL’s mobile learning research findings and an overview of the MoTIF project. This session will specifically address the mLearning considerations during the analysis and design phases. Participants will also receive a list of mobile learning resources and discuss opportunities for getting involved with the community supporting this effort and evolving the framework.
Augmented reality (AR) can take any situation, location, environment, or experience to a whole new level of meaning and understanding. Mobile AR technologies provide an innovative tool for contextual learning, but mobile learning designers and developers are unaware of where to look for examples or development options.
Are you getting ready for Community Manager Appreciation Day? How will you thank your community manager? Here are a few suggestions of things to do on the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Manager_Appreciation_Day
This is a presentation given at Online Northwest 2010 by Kim Griggs and Hannah Gascho Rempel about how we designed our mobile library site and recommendations for how libraries can design their own mobile library site.
This presentation highlights findings from my work as a visualization designer. The seven principles are distilled pieces from projects I reviewed or worked on myself. I believe it's important to learn from every project as much as you can and share this experience with the community to grow collectively.
This introductory level talk is about Apache Flink: a multi-purpose Big Data analytics framework leading a movement towards the unification of batch and stream processing in the open source.
With the many technical innovations it brings along with its unique vision and philosophy, it is considered the 4 G (4th Generation) of Big Data Analytics frameworks providing the only hybrid (Real-Time Streaming + Batch) open source distributed data processing engine supporting many use cases: batch, streaming, relational queries, machine learning and graph processing.
In this talk, you will learn about:
1. What is Apache Flink stack and how it fits into the Big Data ecosystem?
2. How Apache Flink integrates with Hadoop and other open source tools for data input and output as well as deployment?
3. Why Apache Flink is an alternative to Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Storm and Apache Spark.
4. Who is using Apache Flink?
5. Where to learn more about Apache Flink?
Present and future of unified, portable, and efficient data processing with A...DataWorks Summit
The world of big data involves an ever-changing field of players. Much as SQL stands as a lingua franca for declarative data analysis, Apache Beam aims to provide a portable standard for expressing robust, out-of-order data processing pipelines in a variety of languages across a variety of platforms. In a way, Apache Beam is a glue that can connect the big data ecosystem together; it enables users to "run any data processing pipeline anywhere."
This talk will briefly cover the capabilities of the Beam model for data processing and discuss its architecture, including the portability model. We’ll focus on the present state of the community and the current status of the Beam ecosystem. We’ll cover the state of the art in data processing and discuss where Beam is going next, including completion of the portability framework and the Streaming SQL. Finally, we’ll discuss areas of improvement and how anybody can join us on the path of creating the glue that interconnects the big data ecosystem.
Speaker
Davor Bonaci, Apache Software Foundation; Simbly, V.P. of Apache Beam; Founder/CEO at Operiant
SCORM, which has been the de facto standard for publishing, launching, and tracking eLearning on learning management systems, is not properly equipped to manage non-traditional learning that is mobile and informal. Experience API, or xAPI, however, provides the eLearning community an interface that is able to collect and record details from any learning experience in one central location, regardless of where the learning takes place. With xAPI’s extreme potential to improve the way learning is captured and administered, it is vital for eLearning professionals to understand:
- xAPI’s capabilities for managing mobile, non-traditional learning
- SCORM’s place in the future of eLearning
- Integration of xAPI into HTML5 for tracking user activity within currently-adopted LMS or LRS
- Real world examples of xAPI implementation
Currently Experience API (xAPI) mostly focuses on providing “structural” interoperability of xAPI statements via JavaScript Object Notation Language (JSON). Structural interoperability defines the syntax of the data exchange and ensures the data exchanged between systems can be interpreted at the data field level. In comparison, semantic interoperability leverages the structural interoperability of the data exchange, but provides a vocabulary so other systems and consumers can also interpret the data. Analytics produced by xAPI statements would benefit from more consistent and semantic approaches to describing domain-specific verbs, activityTypes, attachments, and extensions. The xAPI specification recommends implementers to adopt community-defined vocabularies, but the only current guidance is to provide very basic, human-readable identifier metadata (e.g., literal string name(display), description). The main objective of the Vocabulary and Semantic Interoperability Working Group (WG) is to research machine-readable, semantic technologies (e.g., RDF, JSON-LD) in order to produce guidance for Communities of Practice (CoPs) on creating, publishing, or managing controlled vocabulary datasets (e.g., verbs). In this session, you will see a brief introduction to modern controlled vocabulary practices and how they can be applied to xAPI to add semantic expressiveness of controlled vocabularies. The progress and resources from the Vocabulary WG (started in April 2015) will also be shared.
IEEE ADB Update - xAPI Camp March 2015RePubIT Inc.
John Costa is CEO of RePubIT, an Interactive eBook Prototyping Studio and chairs three open-standards committees, including the IEEE IC12 Industry Connections Committee ADB (IEEE Actionable Data Book & ePub3) effort. The group is developing an open architecture for standardizing interactive eBooks, active widgets and xAPI. Current xAPI development involves integration of the ePub3 to dashboards of various learning record stores including real-time updates back to the epub itself. We are actively seeking new members. Contact me directly at jbcosta@repubit.com.
xAPI Camp-Orlando was a one-day event showcasing what’s possible with xAPI. Coinciding with Learning Solutions 2015, on March, 24 2015, we gathered 100+ technology leaders at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training. This was a day filled with case studies, problem solving and networking. We connected participants to answers they could act on and a community that helps them make an impact.
We were at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training, located at 3100 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826.
ADL’s recent research review uncovered the fact that very few actual ID models for mobile learning truly exist. Instead of creating a new ID model, they have presented a framework that can be used to incorporate mobile learning considerations into existing ID models and agile approaches to optimize them for the mobile learner. Ideally, instructional designers should now consider focusing on new opportunities for improving performance and augmenting skills, not just on knowledge transfer.
The flexible approach proposed by the framework takes both instruction and performance support into consideration for the mobile learning task or challenge at hand. This session will provide you with ADL’s mobile learning research findings and an overview of the MoTIF project. This session will specifically address the mLearning considerations during the analysis and design phases. Participants will also receive a list of mobile learning resources and discuss opportunities for getting involved with the community supporting this effort and evolving the framework.
Augmented reality (AR) can take any situation, location, environment, or experience to a whole new level of meaning and understanding. Mobile AR technologies provide an innovative tool for contextual learning, but mobile learning designers and developers are unaware of where to look for examples or development options.
Are you getting ready for Community Manager Appreciation Day? How will you thank your community manager? Here are a few suggestions of things to do on the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Manager_Appreciation_Day
This is a presentation given at Online Northwest 2010 by Kim Griggs and Hannah Gascho Rempel about how we designed our mobile library site and recommendations for how libraries can design their own mobile library site.
This presentation highlights findings from my work as a visualization designer. The seven principles are distilled pieces from projects I reviewed or worked on myself. I believe it's important to learn from every project as much as you can and share this experience with the community to grow collectively.
This introductory level talk is about Apache Flink: a multi-purpose Big Data analytics framework leading a movement towards the unification of batch and stream processing in the open source.
With the many technical innovations it brings along with its unique vision and philosophy, it is considered the 4 G (4th Generation) of Big Data Analytics frameworks providing the only hybrid (Real-Time Streaming + Batch) open source distributed data processing engine supporting many use cases: batch, streaming, relational queries, machine learning and graph processing.
In this talk, you will learn about:
1. What is Apache Flink stack and how it fits into the Big Data ecosystem?
2. How Apache Flink integrates with Hadoop and other open source tools for data input and output as well as deployment?
3. Why Apache Flink is an alternative to Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Storm and Apache Spark.
4. Who is using Apache Flink?
5. Where to learn more about Apache Flink?
Present and future of unified, portable, and efficient data processing with A...DataWorks Summit
The world of big data involves an ever-changing field of players. Much as SQL stands as a lingua franca for declarative data analysis, Apache Beam aims to provide a portable standard for expressing robust, out-of-order data processing pipelines in a variety of languages across a variety of platforms. In a way, Apache Beam is a glue that can connect the big data ecosystem together; it enables users to "run any data processing pipeline anywhere."
This talk will briefly cover the capabilities of the Beam model for data processing and discuss its architecture, including the portability model. We’ll focus on the present state of the community and the current status of the Beam ecosystem. We’ll cover the state of the art in data processing and discuss where Beam is going next, including completion of the portability framework and the Streaming SQL. Finally, we’ll discuss areas of improvement and how anybody can join us on the path of creating the glue that interconnects the big data ecosystem.
Speaker
Davor Bonaci, Apache Software Foundation; Simbly, V.P. of Apache Beam; Founder/CEO at Operiant
LSCon 407 Building the xAPI Learning Ecosystem of Your DreamsTorranceLearning
You’re excited about the promise of an xAPI-enabled world, but you’ve got a learning management system, a catalog full of SCORM-based courses that you need, and a handful of learning tool vendors that don’t use xAPI. What if you could get the most out of an LMS and an LRS at the same time as you move to your next-generation learning and performance infrastructure?
This session will start with the learner-facing tools that will capture your xAPI data: eLearning, mobile tools, performance support, social and informal activities, and data sources from the business. You’ll review your options when it comes to LRSs and how they work (or don’t work) with your LMS. Will you work with a standalone LRS? A front-end xAPI solution with a built-in LRS? Or an LRS that is aligned with your LMS and your current learning infrastructure? You’ll hear real-world stories of three different xAPI implementations to help you plot your organization’s course toward your next-generation learning ecosystem.
conTEXT -- Lightweight Text Analytics using Linked DataAli Khalili
The Web democratized publishing -- everybody can easily publish information on a Website, Blog, in social networks or microblogging systems. The more the amount of published information grows, the more important are technologies for accessing, analysing, summarising and visualising information. While substantial progress has been made in the last years in each of these areas individually, we argue, that only the intelligent combination of approaches will make this progress truly useful and leverage further synergies between techniques. In this paper we develop a text analytics architecture of participation, which allows ordinary people to use sophisticated NLP techniques for analysing and visualizing their content, be it a Blog, Twitter feed, Website or article collection. The architecture comprises interfaces for information access, natural language processing and visualization. Dierent exchangeable components can be plugged into this architecture, making it easy to tailor for individual needs. We evaluate the usefulness of our approach by comparing both the eectiveness and eciency of end users within a task-solving setting. Moreover, we evaluate the usability of our approach using a questionnaire-driven approach. Both evaluations suggest that oridinary Web users are empowered to analyse their data and perform tasks, which were previously out of reach.
This slide was used in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 Plenary Meeting in June 22, 2015.
Title of this slide is 'Proof of Concept for Learning Analytics Interoperability and subtitle is 'Reference Model based on open source SW'.
Career opportunities in open source frameworkedunextgen
EduNextgen extended arm of Product Innovation Academy is a growing entity in education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills. A platform with blended learning programs supported by in-trend technology platforms for learning. Engaging organizations for learning development objectives. Training courses are designed and updated by renowned industry experts. Our blended learning approach combines online classes, instructor-led live virtual classrooms and virtual teaching assistance.
Career opportunities in open source framework edunextgen
EduNextgen extended arm of Product Innovation Academy is a growing entity in education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills. A platform with blended learning programs supported by in-trend technology platforms for learning. Engaging organizations for learning development objectives. Training courses are designed and updated by renowned industry experts. Our blended learning approach combines online classes, instructor-led live virtual classrooms and virtual teaching assistance.
This talk given at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose on June 28, 2016, analyzes a few major trends in Big Data analytics.
These are a few takeaways from this talk:
- Adopt Apache Beam for easier development and portability between Big Data Execution Engines.
- Adopt stream analytics for faster time to insight, competitive advantages and operational efficiency.
- Accelerate your Big Data applications with In-Memory open source tools.
- Adopt Rapid Application Development of Big Data applications: APIs, Notebooks, GUIs, Microservices…
- Have Machine Learning part of your strategy or passively watch your industry completely transformed!
- How to advance your strategy for hybrid integration between cloud and on-premise deployments?
28March2024-Codeless-Generative-AI-Pipelines
https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-princeton/events/299440871/
https://www.meetup.com/real-time-analytics-meetup-ny/events/299290822/
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We're excited to invite you to join us in-person, for a Real-Time Analytics exploration!
Join us for an evening of insights, networking as we delve into the OSS technologies shaping the field!
Agenda:
05:30-06:00: Pizza and friends
06:00- 06:40: Codeless GenAI Pipelines with Flink, Kafka, NiFi
06:40- 07:20 Real-Time Analytics in the Corporate World: How Apache Pinot® Powers Industry Leaders
07:20-07:30 QNA
Codeless GenAI Pipelines with Flink, Kafka, NiFi | Tim Spann, Cloudera
Explore the power of real-time streaming with GenAI using Apache NiFi. Learn how NiFi simplifies data engineering workflows, allowing you to focus on creativity over technical complexities. I'll guide you through practical examples, showcasing NiFi's automation impact from ingestion to delivery. Whether you're a seasoned data engineer or new to GenAI, this talk offers valuable insights into optimizing workflows. Join us to unlock the potential of real-time streaming and witness how NiFi makes data engineering a breeze for GenAI applications!
Real-Time Analytics in the Corporate World: How Apache Pinot® Powers Industry Leaders | Viktor Gamov, StarTree
Explore how industry leaders like LinkedIn, Uber Eats, and Stripe are mastering real-time data with Viktor as your guide. Discover how Apache Pinot transforms data into actionable insights instantly. Viktor will showcase Pinot's features, including the Star-Tree Index, and explain why it's a game-changer in data strategy. This session is for everyone, from data geeks to business gurus, eager to uncover the future of tech. Join us and be wowed by the power of real-time analytics with Apache Pinot!
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Tim Spann is a Principal Developer Advocate in Data In Motion for Cloudera.
He works with Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink, Flink SQL, Apache Pinot, Trino, Apache Iceberg, DeltaLake, Apache Spark, Big Data, IoT, Cloud, AI/DL, machine learning, and deep learning. Tim has over ten years of experience with the IoT, big data, distributed computing, messaging, streaming technologies, and Java programming. Previously, he was a Developer Advocate at StreamNative, Principal DataFlow Field Engineer at Cloudera, a Senior Solutions Engineer at Hortonworks, a Senior Solutions Architect at AirisData, a Senior Field Engineer at Pivotal and a Team Leader at HPE. He blogs for DZone, where he is the Big Data Zone leader, and runs a popular meetup in Princeton & NYC on Big Data, Cloud, IoT, deep learning, streaming, NiFi, the blockchain, and Spark. Tim is a frequent speaker at conferences such as ApacheCon, DeveloperWeek, Pulsar Summit and many more.
Unified Batch and Real-Time Stream Processing Using Apache FlinkSlim Baltagi
This talk was given at Capital One on September 15, 2015 at the launch of the Washington DC Area Apache Flink Meetup. Apache flink is positioned at the forefront of 2 major trends in Big Data Analytics:
- Unification of Batch and Stream processing
- Multi-purpose Big Data Analytics frameworks
In these slides, we will also find answers to the burning question: Why Apache Flink? You will also learn more about how Apache Flink compares to Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Spark and Apache Storm.
ATD ICE 2018 Building the xAPI Ecosystem Houck & TorranceTorranceLearning
In this session, we'll start with the learner-facing tools that will capture your xAPI data: elearning, mobile tools, performance support, social and informal activities, and data sources from the business. We'll review your options when it comes to LRS and how they work (or don't work) with your LMS. Will you work with a standalone LRS? A front end xAPI solution with a built-in LRS? Or an LRS that is aligned with your LMS and your current learning infrastructure? We'll share real-world stories of three different xAPI implementations to help you plot your organization's course toward your next-generation learning ecosystem.
Mobile learning is a new educational technology and introduces both exciting capabilities and complexity into the learning design process, but with very few guidelines. ADL’s MoTIF project will explore new types of learning and design approaches that take advantage of the capabilities of the mobile platform. The MoTIF project will result in interventions such as strategies, materials, products, and guidelines as solutions to the problems, but will also advance our knowledge about the characteristics of these interventions and the processes involved in designing and developing them.This survey report is the first step in the design-based research approach and will drive the needs assessment for the project. The survey report will reveal the MoTIF project objectives as well as highlight other relevant findings from the data collected from the 831 survey respondents from around the world.
The Experience API (xAPI) introduces several design implications for mobile learning that involve user experience (UX) design, interface design, service and system design, organizational design, reporting and analytics design, and instructional design. You’ll hear about the different use cases focusing on commonly anticipated business requirements that will ultimately help determine and prioritize your design objectives. This stage event will be both informative and interactive and will involve audience participation to identify and discuss the potential types of cognitive and performance processes in designing a learning experience using the xAPI.
This paper summarizes findings from an empirical study that investigated the conversion and delivery of an existing DoD-wide eLearning course, “Trafficking In Persons (TIP) General Awareness Training”, to a mobile format. The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Mobile Learning Team deployed the training content and measured user feedback as a field experiment to volunteers in each of the DoD services. This paper presents both quantitative and qualitative results, including learner performance and overall satisfaction with the mobile course.
There are several technical challenges associated with deploying SCORM content because the current technologies used in SCORM are based on HTTP and JavaScript, which have limited support on mid-end mobile devices. The good news is there are other technical approaches that don't use HTTP and JavaScript that you could leverage as an alternative.
Participants in this session will learn the issues related to deploying SCORM content on mobile devices. Many people are looking for a more lightweight mobile-friendly version of SCORM that can be deployed on mobile devices. This session will look at existing technologies that can be leveraged as alternatives, rather than waiting for SCORM to be updated. You’ll see several example use cases of SCORM implementations and hear the lessons learned from ADL.
This paper identifies three areas for improvement:
1. Unique identifiers should be associated with objectives to avoid "objective collision".
2. There is a need for a specification for learning objectives.
3. There should be a clear rules for how learning objectives are associated with learning activities and how content objects should use learning objectives.
Some solutions are put forward, in particular a suggested extension to the manifest to include learning objectives.
Some of the Department of Defense (DOD) services have had negative experiences when attempting to share SCORM content packages between their various LMS implementations primarily due to differences with both user interfaces and the Application Programming Interface (API) Implementation. The vision of plug-n-play interoperability of learning content is usually achieved only after several additional hours of modifying the content to work in a particular LMS implementation. In order to achieve adoption on a global scale, SCORM 2.0 must have a strategy to improve interoperability by standardizing the user interface controls in further support of flexibility, usability, accessibility, and durability. This paper provides a background and summary of the Navy's successes with extending the SCORM to support standardized user interface options, and further proposes creating or incorporating a new user interface interoperability specification and a recommendation for supplying a standardized API Implementation as part of the Core SCORM.
During the past three months I have been in contact with several organizations and vendors that have either already implemented SCORM or have been working on implementing SCORM as part of their mobile learning strategy. This helped me to identify the use cases for this presentation.
My objectives for this presentation and also for my ongoing research interests are the following:
1) Generate a list of mobile learning technologies that use SCORM.
2) Publish general best practices for designing SCORM content for mobile devices.
3) Identify which technologies are available when implementing SCORM for mobile devices.
4) Identify potential updates to SCORM that will enhance future mobile learning.
Today I will talk about some specific mLearning examples and provide you with the 5 W’s (who, what, when, where, and why) of each use case and how SCORM is being addressed as part of their mLearning strategy. Finally, I will conclude the session with the outcomes I recorded from analyzing these use cases. The outcomes will include:
• Notable Findings
• Common Technical Challenges and Considerations
• General Best Practices
More from Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative (10)
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
AI for Every Business: Unlocking Your Product's Universal Potential by VP of ...
EPUB 3 and xAPI
1. EPUB 3 and the xAPI:EPUB 3 and the xAPI:
An Open Platform for Activity-based Mobile LearningAn Open Platform for Activity-based Mobile Learning
25 June 2014, San
DiegoTyde Richards and Jason
Haag
3. The Rise of SCORM
~1997 Web-based learning takes off
Technically based on browser + Web server
New requirements for interoperability
ADL and others collaborate on SCORM
SCORM achieves global adoption
4. The SCORM Interoperability Model
SCOSCO
Learning Specific Structure Learning Specific Content
ClientClient
Zip FileZip File
Web browser
“dumb”
Learning Management System
Business logic
6. 2010 - A Changed Context
SCORM mature - loss of momentum
Accelerating pace of new technologies
–Maturation of Open Web Platform
–Big data and cloud-based services
–Mobile Platforms
Interest in learning interoperability declines
IEEE LTSC Study Group on SCORM
7. Transition Time Between Paradigms
MainframeMainframe
Personal
Computer
Personal
Computer
Web
Browser
Web
Browser
Something
Else
Something
Else
UnstableUnstable UnstableUnstable UnstableUnstable
We are here
8. Enter xAPI
Traditional SCORM: Content + Runtime
xAPI as the new Runtime?
Solves know problems
– RESTful API, extensions
New future oriented-affordances
– [Cloud | Big | Semantic | Activity Stream ] data
Right solution for new times
9. xAPI Background
Developed by open source community
Tracks experiences, informal learning, real-
world experiences (not just courses)
Allows data storage & retrieval (mobile apps,
games, ITS, and virtual worlds experiences,
team/group activities)
Machine and human readable (uses natural
language)
10. xAPI Background
Project “Tin Can API”
Based on http://activitystrea.ms
Collaboration between Google, Facebook,
Microsoft and others
11. xAPI Background
Allows reporting of experiences, not just
completions
Statement format:
Simple: I (actor) watched (verb) a video
on protecting employee data (activity)
Complex: in the context of [information
assurance certification training
course ] with result [timestamp:2013-
0618T18:30:32.360Z ].
13. An xAPI Statement Properties
ID
Actor
Object
Verb
Result
Context
Timestamp
Attachments
14. What is the Learning Record
Store?
Reportin
g
Systems
Reportin
g
Systems
Assessme
nt
Services
Assessme
nt
Services
Semantic
Analysis
Semantic
Analysis
Statistic
al
Services
Statistic
al
Services
15. xAPI Resources & Adoption
15
‣ xAPI Specification & Documentation
‣ https://github.com/adlnet/xAPI-Spec/
‣ xAPI JavaScript Wrapper
‣ https://github.com/adlnet/xAPIWrapper
‣ Learning Record Store
‣ https://github.com/adlnet/ADL_LRS
‣ Adoption
‣ 8 LRS Solutions (open source & commercial)
‣ Integrated into eLearning authoring tools
‣ Over 200 active participants in WG & Cohorts
16. To carry SCORM forward …
xAPI modernizes the SCORM runtime
Is that it?
What about a modernized content strategy?
Is that desirable or even possible?
IEEE LTSC considered many technologies
Concluded both possible and desirable
17. EPUB 3
New open format for eBooks
Developed by IDPF
Adopts HTML5 as content format
eBook now packaged Website on mobile device
Implications for interactivity: huge but unexplored
18. A New but Familiar Architecture
HTML
5
HTML
5
Generic Structure Generic Content
eBook ReadereBook Reader
epub Zip Fileepub Zip File
book services
19. EPUB 3 and SCORM
SCORM EPUB 3
Architecture Glue parts together Intrinsic whole
Control Server Mobile platform
Content format Out of scope HTML5
Player Out of scope eBook Reader
User Experience Out of scope W3C CSS
Sustainability Not Sustainable Sustainable
Accessibility Out of scope Central focus
20. IEEE Actionable Data Book
R&D Project Sponsored by IEEE LTSC
EPUB 3 as mobile learning delivery platform
Carry forward SCORM concepts as appropriate
Assume cloud (xAPI), device, Internet of Things
communication
2013 Feasibility Study
2014-15 Build something
21. EPUB 3 for Learning Delivery ?
At first – way outside the box …
Rapid change during past year
10/2013 IDPF EDUPUB Alliance
– Collaboration with IMS GLC, W3C, Publishers
– Producing education sector EPUB 3 profile
– Addressing reuse, analytics, accessibility, etc.
IBM EPUB 3 adoption
22. 2013 - xAPI in EPUB
eBook ReadereBook Reader xAPI – cloud data
EPUB 3 eBook
•HTML
•CSS
•JavaScript
• xAPI Library
Guess what? It just works ….
If the reader allows communication
23. 2013 – Mapping SCORM to EPUB 3
HTML
5
HTML
5
Generic Structure Generic Content
epub Zip Fileepub Zip File
device capabilities
eBook ReadereBook Reader xAPI – cloud data
Activity
24. eBooks and APPs
Common PlayerCommon Player
• Two different communities
• Move past the “book” thing
• Move past the “app” thing
• Complimentary technologies
• Something new and better ?
Common APICommon API
Common ContentCommon Content
Mobile PlatformMobile Platform
26. 2014 – ADL xAPI Design Cohort
Collaborating with imbuElearning
K12 learning-to-read use case
Defining an xAPI vocabulary for eBooks
Exploring xAPI generality
– Accessibility and user preferences
– Annotations
28. 2014 – Towards an Activity Player
Support EPUB 3-based Activity Model + xAPI
Exploring EPUB 3 readers
Exploring Phonegap as HTML5 mobile technology
Exploring support for low energy Bluetooh
Very interested in OMLET (JKO Mobile) technology
Looks like an integration problem
29. EPUB 3 Prototypes / Demos
‣ EPUB 3 + xAPI: iBooks, Readium, EPUB.js, Calibre
‣ Additional areas to investigate:
‣ Client / reader xAPI implementation
‣ Synchronize bookmarks using xAPI across
platforms & readers
‣ Accessibility
‣ Annotations + EPUB testing in more readers
35. If interested in this work …
IEEE ADB an open collaboration
Weekly virtual meetings (9am Friday US Eastern)
Compliments IEEE LTSC xAPI Study Group
Contact tyderichards@gmail.com
Q&A