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What is xAPI?
xAPI is an experience API specification for recording and analyzing learning and performance experiences. It allows learning experiences to be tracked across systems and outside of learning management systems. Activity statements describe learning activities using a simple subject-verb-object format. These statements can be sent to a learning record store to build a learning record over time. Getting started with xAPI involves picking a project, learning more through online resources, and joining communities of practice.
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- 1. What is xAPI? MeganTorrance xAPI Party | May 17, 2018 iStock_000015727078
- 3. Tour the campus& buildings Explore benefit package Take a skills assessment Attend webinar Attend a class Rate your experience Complete online course Observe the job being done Receive coaching Watch a video Follow a blog Read a book by an expert Elearning: Welcome & virtual tour Elearning: Log into LMS Elearning: Plant tour Class: Your benefits & you Class: Email and You Elearning: Who’s who Elearning: Our customers Class: Finance 101 Recorded webinar Webinar Multiple choice test Practice doing the job Job shadow Class: Using the intranet Onboarding Plan BOnboarding Plan A
- 4. xAPI is … X= experience API = application programming interface Specification for sending, storing, retrieving activity about learning and performance experiences Not so much “next generation SCORM” as it is “what will replace SCORM.” Experience API is … Tin Can API is …
- 5. SCORM Time Score Location Status Answers Actor verb object Actorverb object context xAPI lego.com
- 6. What can youdo with xAPI? • Learn more about the learning experience – not just elearning • Learn more about the performance • Correlate learning with performance • Offer more targeted training • Support performance in better ways • Use data to learn with others • Compare performance and learning across learners • Deliver and track training outside of the LMS
- 7. Learning Record Provider Content Activity Statement LearningRecord Store You Other & Legacy data Adobe Stock 158410923
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- 9. STEP 1: Send the data Useyour current elearning authoring tools Get your product vendor to send the data Use xapiapps to assemble things that aren’t xAPI into a thing that is Write some custom code
- 10. AUTHORING TOOLS Out ofthe box: • SCORM-like transactions • Individual page views • Actions and triggers (depends) With a little JavaScript or with xAVIER: • Any action or trigger you want More info: www.xapiquarterly.com (Sean Putman), xAPI Cohort Fall 2017 results THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 11. MISC OTHER OPTIONS Notreally “authoring tools,” but very deep learning experiences, LMCSes, etc. that send xAPI data. THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 12. First tool we’vefound outside L&D that uses xAPI THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
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- 15. Claire read BusinessWriting for ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes Lindsey watched the Company History video Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
- 16. Actor verb object Actorverb object context Claire read Business Writing for ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes Lindsey watched the Company History video Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
- 17. Mohammed wrote ablog post about local theatre that got 45 views and 3 commentsOron rated ATD event Essentials of Creating Learning Experiences with xAPI @MMTorrance 4 stars “coffee rocked, nice use of WebEx” Cynthia completed Oil Change Upselling score 60%Ladan simulated landing at DTW Arthi simulated landing at DTW in SimSuite #4 and was rated 98% by Instructor Claire read Business Writing for ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes Lindsey watched the Company History video Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
- 19. Kirkpatrick Levels of TrainingEvaluation + Cathy Moore 19 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 On the Job Behaviors ! Knowledge & Retention: Testing Business Results Level 1 Satisfaction & Experience
- 20. The 70/20/10 Learning from Others Learningfrom ExperienceFormal Learning We are here now
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- 22. Getting Started Adobe Stock79551218
- 23. First pick a project SCORMis not the (best) answer. The project’s sponsor is on board. There’s plenty of data. You can capture or get to the data you need.
- 24. Take 2 aspirin… Adobe Stock63038227
- 25. FORMING STORMING NORMINGPERFORMING xAPI needs geeks Geek-free tools emerge Communities of Practice work to define usage Conformance & Certification emerge Project Tin Can Specification Standard More common than SCORM Is xAPI ready for prime time?
- 26. Start learning more … Vendor sites www.learnxapi.comand www.xapiquarterly.com xAPI Learning Cohort xAPI MOOC xAPI Camps & xAPI Party
- 27. Get started! www.torrancelearning.com/xapi- cohort Free 12-week,vendor-neutral learning-by-doing-in-teams experience. Weekly web meetings Thursdays 2-3pm ET (recorded). Winter/Spring & Fall Ad hoc teams form to tackle a project together and provide weekly report- outs.
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- #3 Fitbit: www.fitbit.com Google: www.megalytics.com Jumpforward: www.jumpforward.com
- #4 ASK: Using your pointer tool, put your name on which onboarding plan you’d rather participate in. DISCUSS: Why did you pick that?
- #5 xAPI is … X = experience API = application programming interface Specification for sending, storing, retrieving activity Some say that xAPI is next gen SCORM Like my smart phone SCORM only tracks 5 boring things
- #7 “X” for Experience, not LAPI – “learning” … track all sorts of things. And here’s the thing: you can do all of these things without xAPI. You just build them yourself. The technology is there – actually, its existed for years and some of you are already doing this. When you do these things with xAPI you are using an interoperable platform for communication – you can add and change pieces, vendors, platforms with far greater ease.
- #8 There are three “parts” to xAPI: The Learning Record Provider, the Activity Statement and the Learning Record Store. The Learning Record Provider is what’s sending the data – if it’s an elearning situation, then the activity provider is the course. You are the one doing the thinking here. The content is what you’re talking about. Again, if we’re talking about elearning, the content is … your content. The Activyt Statement is the format with which we’re sending the data. To be honest, the funnel doesn’t really hold up well as a metaphor. And we’re pouring all these statements into a Learning Record Store, which is a database that stores it all. At some point it may or may not have to mix in with some legacy content and data in order to make sense.
- #11 Out of the box, you can expect data that’s a lot like SCORM, plus individual page views, question answers and a few other things you couldn’t get with SCORM. dominKnow and Lectora support a wider variety of statements based on actions and triggers. All of these tools you can add custom JavaScript to action triggers and send statements to the LRS. ADD SLIDE: For example, our project with University of North Carolina – see us at DemoFest – where we have custom JS added to all sorts of actions in a Storyline course – question sets individually and totals, downloading resources, entering text on screen.
- #14 With xapiapps you’ll get transactions like
- #16 Here are some human readable activity statements. ASK: What’s the pattern here?
- #17 The pattern is that there’s an Actor, a verb, and an object. We can also add context about any of the items – actor, verb, or object
- #21 Similarly the 70/20/10 model.
- #23 HOW TO GET STARTED Pick a first project Platform & tools you’ll need to get started What I’ve learned in working with vendors & partners
- #24 HOW TO GET STARTED Pick a first project Platform & tools you’ll need to get started What I’ve learned in working with vendors & partners
- #25 That’s awesome, but what do I do next?
- #26 Wikipedia: Dr Bruce Tuckman published his Forming Storming Norming Performing model in 1965. He added a fifth stage, Adjourning, in the 1970s. The Forming Storming Norming Performing theory is an elegant and helpful explanation of team development and behaviour (US spelling: behavior).