Workshop on using the Experience API (xAPI or TinCan) for education research. Presented by Ellen Meiselman, David Topps and Corey Albersworth, at Medbiq Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD in May 2016.
5. Based on the Activity Streams standard
Actor - Verb – Object
“Bob did this”
6. *
Why?
● Solve learning problems we have never been
able to come close to solving.
● Enable learners and educators to track what
is meaningful to them.
● Find out what is actually being used to learn.
● Give people credit for ad-hoc real life
mentoring and learning.
8. *
Track just-in-time online learning
● Bookmarklets to track learning from websites
● QR Codes to track mobile just-in-time
learning
● Badge Swiper tracking to track instructor led
sessions
● Sensors to track almost anything
9. *
Reduce the pain of developing
simple content
10 minutes to learn how to build a quiz?
Wordpress for developing simple online learning
content and quizzes.
Uses:
●Quick knowledge check
●Detect problems
●Put reference materials online
10. *
Bite-sized-learning
● Replace mandatories with emailed mastery
quiz
● Single scenario-based question is answered
right in the email or with a single click to a
Wordpress quiz.
● Weekly quiz
11. Activity 1
●What activities could you track?
oBe creative – anything is trackable
oBe practical – not everything is useful
●7 minutes
o…followed by 3 min shout-out
13. What’s the fuss about Big Data?
●Framework
oVolume, Variety, Velocity
oDebated… more V’s
●TED talk by Kenneth Cukier
owww.ted.com/talks/kenneth_cukier
_big_data_is_better_data
26. *
Want to try it?
Contact
Ellen Meiselman
emeiselm@umich.edu
…or…
http://openlabyrinth.ca
Editor's Notes
Most of the online learning in MLearning uses an elearning standard called SCORM to communicate back to the LMS, but it is showing its age. It's one of the things standing in the way of the goal of correlating learning with performance and outcomes.
There are technical issues, also with the standard, and there are a lot of structural issues as well.
Our new learning management system will allow a bit more data flexibility, but mostly in a proprietary format, and it does little to address the structural issues and difficulty of data integration between systems
It's syntax is based on a Subject- Verb-Object format, like RDF Triples.
You can say things like:
"Jane completed Patient Safety with a score of 100%"
"Sue mentored Steve on this topic and here are Sue's comments and Steve's response"
"Bob walked 30 minutes today, and his cardiac sensor data are attached, as well as the GPS track .
We'll probably have to move the LRS outside the network eventually, or have two LRS's communicating with each other, or perhaps people will have personal LRS's.
...describe experience and context data to assess learning and performance over time and adapt training across a variety of environments, systems, or modalities including both systems and human observers.