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Tj Seabrooks - Activity Providers Wanted #xapicamp
TJ Seabrooks is looking for activity providers to help build out exciting learning experiences using xAPI, as existing platforms and tools are not yet ready to fully utilize its capabilities. While interest in xAPI's potential is high, uncertainty around statement design and interoperability has slowed adoption. The community is working on technical specifications, prototypes, and libraries to provide more guidance for platforms and help non-technical users create meaningful learning activities.
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- 1. 1 Activity Providers Wanted TJSeabrooks TJ Seabrooks Director of Products Rustici Software
- 2. The Promise The communityhas succeeded in getting people excited about what xAPI enables. 2 Simulations Security Non-LMS Learning Mobile Learning Real World Performance Informal Learning
- 3. 3 The most excitingactivities are custom built. Large organizations are adopting xAPI, beginning with traditional e-learning. Existing platforms aren’t ready to handle the diverse reporting requirement of xAPI. Prebuilt tools to allow organizations to build exciting learning experiences easily don’t exist yet. The Reality The community isn’t there yet.
- 4. 4 Why is thishard? Uncertainty in how systems will (and should) report on statements from various Activity Providers. Uncertainty For Platforms (LMS, LRS, etc.) For Activity Providers There’s a lack of guidance on how they should integrate an LRS with their existing platforms. Guidance The lack of statement predictability makes platform vendors wary. Predictability Lack of tooling for non technical users and subject matter experts to create exciting experiences. Tools Designing statements that are meaningful and able to be reported on meaningfully is difficult. Statement Design Most popular authoring tools aren’t doing xAPI in a way that does substantially more than older standards. Doing New Things
- 5. 5 Technical Blogs Prototypes Libraries Conformance Suite xAPI Lab Thingsthe community is working on…
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- 7. 7 How can wehelp activity providers? Profile Creation and Adoption Reporting Systems Shouldn’t Do All the Work LRSs Don’t Exist in a Vacuum
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Editor's Notes
- #3 **FAILED PROMISE** Mobile Learning Serious Games Simulations Informal Learning Real World Performance Launch content outside the LMS Maintain complete control over content delivery and user experience Freely navigate a learner across disparate content Add security to prevent users from cheating The promise of these activity providers some day being generally available is no longer enough. (Amazon wants to see something amazing) We need portable Activity Providers where people can expect reporting to be done in the same way no matter their LRS or reporting system. Portability Predictability Activity provider adoption will decide future adoption of the standard People want to purchase / see these exciting activity providers in action. ----- Meeting Notes (9/25/15 14:25) ----- Isolated pockets of success on all of these things.
- #4 ----- Meeting Notes (9/25/15 14:32) ----- Things we've helped customers build or the great things we've seen in the community. Most of these have been purpose built for a particular use. They're awesome examples but doesn't give people a thing they can go buy to start training their learners or tracking their learners immediately. This means that as large organizations get excited about the xAPI, a task the community has done a great job of, they're being forced to adopt xAPI for traditional elearning content because it's the only thing. This type of actvity currently makes up ~80% of the statements we've seen across our hosted platform and our customers using xAPI ----- Meeting Notes (9/25/15 14:52) ----- ... Are from these traditional elearning activities. The other 20%, however, is still giving organizations headaches. Because these statements are coming from a variety of sources. Internal, externally purchased activities, open source utilities.... The statements coming from these sources isn't cohesive or standardized enough for people to easily build reports that derive real meaning. We are now in a waiting game where platforms are waiting for activity providers to make easier to digest statements and activity providers are expecting the platfrms to do most of the work of determining deep semantic meaning from the data. In the middle we have organizations, excited about xAPI with no obvious path forward towards more advanced adoption.
- #5 Content Experts - we need so non technical content experts can create rich activities that truly take advantage of xAPI’s posisbilities Existing learning platforms. - Platforms can be richly outfitted activity providers. This goes past just content. Simulations and advanced learning experiences. ----- Meeting Notes (9/25/15 14:52) ----- So, whats happening here... What's happening here, what is making this so difficult to overcome, why are organizations spending so much time in the trouph of disillusionment...
- #6 More tools? Discuss how these tools are helping. Who they’re helping. How they’re not doing enough to help people make the kind of exciting activity providers we want to see.
- #7 More tools? Discuss how these tools are helping. Who they’re helping. How they’re not doing enough to help people make the kind of exciting activity providers we want to see.
- #8 APs can do some of the work. We should be trying to make it easier on the LRSs of the world.