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xAPI Ecosystem xAPI Party May 2019
The document discusses the importance of xAPI in creating an interoperable learning ecosystem that collects and analyzes data across various courses and platforms. It outlines different approaches to integrating Learning Record Stores (LRS) with Learning Management Systems (LMS) and emphasizes the need for standardized data practices. Additionally, it provides resources for getting started with xAPI and encourages collaboration through community learning experiences.
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- 1. Building the xAPILearning EcosystemMegan Torrance | xAPI Party May 2019 AdobeStock_47575701
- 2. Why xAPI? Measurement &analytics Move data across courses, platforms, functions Record more than just course data Personalize learning Track activity of multiple people at once Offline storage
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- 5. Got it. So wheredoes the data go?
- 6. The Learning Record Store … receives, stores,gives back xAPI data … can be tested for conformance which ensures interoperability (https://adopters.adlnet.gov/) … is not a learning management system (LMS)
- 7. A typical LMS today (andwho has just one?!?!) Users Course s Enrollments SCOR M Data Reporting Courses Classe s Certs Badges SocialLearning Messaging Performance,Talenthooks Reporting Game s Sims Perf Supp Dash boards eCommerce Import/Export to Biz Data
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- 10. The sidecar approach Users Course s Enrollments SCOR M Data Reporting Courses Classe s Certs Badges SocialLearning Messaging Performance,Talenthooks Reporting Game s Sims Perf Supp Dash boards eCommerce Import/Exportto Biz Data Learning Record Provider Learning Record Provider LRS
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- 14. LEARNING RECORD STORES Outof the box: • Data storage & retrieval • Visualizations & reporting Connecting to analytics • Tableau, Microsoft BI, Envision BI, etc. UP TO DATE LIST OF CONFORMANT LRS: https://adopters.adlnet.gov/ THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING 15
- 15. LMSes WITH LRSINSIDE Out of the box: • Learning management functions • SCORM & AICC • Full xAPI LRS • Data includes both LMS & xAPI UP TO DATE LIST OF CONFORMANT LRS: https://adopters.adlnet.gov/ THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING LearnShare 16
- 16. LMSes WITH “xAPISUPPORT” These are non-conformant LRSes. Out of the box: • Learning management functions • SCORM & AICC • Launch &/or store xAPI They may struggle with: • Accepting statements from outside the LMS • Reporting data in extensions THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING 17
- 17. LMSes THAT CONNECTTO YOUR LRS These systems are learning record providers. What you can expect: • xAPI statements from courses & experiences • Non-SCORM LMS activity, too • To buy an LRS also THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING 18
- 19. How do Imake sure that the data isn’t a total mess?
- 20. Actor verb objectresult context mtorrance@torrancelearning.com mtorrrrance@torrancelearning.com mmtorrance@gmail.com mmtorrance mmtorrance (on learning.acme.com) @MMTorrance 6822984230
- 21. Follow a guide: http://xapi.vocab.pub Useprofiles Make up your own Actor verb object result context
- 22. Create & organizeunique identifiers (not actual URLs) Follow a guide to activity types: http://xapi.vocab.pub Know what your software sends https://acme.com/xapi/activities/elearning/coursetitle/moduletitle/activityname https://acme.com/xapi/activities/video/videotitle https://acme.com/xapi/activities/ebook/ebooktitle https://acme.com/xapi/curricula/curriculumtitle Sample structure Actor verb object result context
- 23. Use profiles: http://xapi.vocab.pub Store activityresult data Authoring packages should do this already for you Actor verb object result context
- 24. Use profiles: http://xapi.vocab.pub Parents, Categories, Groupinghelp keep you organized Make up your own Actor verb object result context
- 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 where you are LaunchxAPI record providers from the LMS (cmi5): Send xAPI from triggers in a SCORM course Export SCORM data from LMS to LRS
- 27. Wait for your LMSto adopt xAPI Offer to beta test. Get a sidecar LRS for your special projects and new projects. • Two sets of reports • Export xAPI “Completions” LMS
- 28. Start shedding SCORM Stop using SCORMwhere you can. If you have to, build for SCORM knowing you’ll use xAPI. • Flexible tools that do both • Follow best practices for xAPI now (xAPI Quarterly) Start asking the “x” question.
- 29. Start learning more … xAPI Camp xAPIHands-On & Geek-Free ATD LearnNow Learning Solutions Magazine xAPI Learning Cohort www.learnxapi.com Vendor sites
- 30. Get started! www.torrancelearning.com/xapi- cohort Free 12-week,vendor-neutral learning-by-doing-in-teams experience. Weekly web meetings 2-3pm ET (recorded). Winter/Spring & Fall Ad hoc teams form to tackle a project together and provide weekly report- outs.
- 31. Megan Torrance mtorrance@torrancelearning.com @MMTorrance |@xAPIGnome | @Tlearning Questions & Thoughts? 32
Editor's Notes
- #2 They say that the easy way to learn is from others’ mistakes. The hard way is from your own mistakes. The tragic way is not learning from either.
- #5 That’s because it’s all about interoperability. You’re building a large platform … not continuing a bunch of silos held together with bailing twine and bandages. But that’s a completely different story for a different day. Few other industries have attempted this degree of interoperability. This is the real positive legacy of SCORM – it has allowed this industry to boom.
- #9 With the integrated approach, a single platform does all the things, including both SCORM and xAPI. It’s all the things that you have come to expect from your LMS provider, with xAPI thrown in, too. One of Megan’s clients has a major integrated learning management system and that platform is adding xAPI support. This means that all the work they did in the last two years to select and implement a major piece of software doesn’t have to be undone, or they don’t have to start over in order to support xAPI projects they have waiting in the wings. Rob’s clients use xAPI-enabled training to train non-employees, where they access the training completely outside the LMS. The integrated LRS permits tracking of the training no matter if the user takes the course on the LMS as an employee, or on a website for business partners… it’s integrated and seamless from a reporting perspective.
- #10 With the integrated approach, a single platform does all the things, including both SCORM and xAPI. It’s all the things that you have come to expect from your LMS provider, with xAPI thrown in, too. One of Megan’s clients has a major integrated learning management system and that platform is adding xAPI support. This means that all the work they did in the last two years to select and implement a major piece of software doesn’t have to be undone, or they don’t have to start over in order to support xAPI projects they have waiting in the wings. Rob’s clients use xAPI-enabled training to train non-employees, where they access the training completely outside the LMS. The integrated LRS permits tracking of the training no matter if the user takes the course on the LMS as an employee, or on a website for business partners… it’s integrated and seamless from a reporting perspective.
- #11 The managed system approach usually puts the LRS at the center of a whole set of systems all talking together. The core system desired around and optimized for xAPI, that then lets you get best-of-breed tools to hook into it. Since you don’t have to be confined to just elearning courses in an LMS for tracking, you you’re tracking things that happen in the real world, and you’re able to go out and do all sorts of things outside your LMS and that pretty well rocks. One of Megan’s clients currently doesn’t have a strong LMS. In fact, their LMS is so “weak” within their organization that the L&D team is using a Wordpress site as a Content Management System from which to offer training – not a WordPress LMS, mind you. An internally hosted Wordpress site. They’re bringing on an LRS product that will be a hub for xAPI transactions from courses launched from the WordPress LMS. And as they bring on other xAPI conformant tools – right now we’re putting in a Curatr learning platform for a key customer group – all of that will feed back into the LRS.
- #12 The Sidecare LRS is a nice happy medium to get started.
- #16 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.
- #20 This is my super-un-scientific way of testing for xAPI conformance. If I get this when I search an LMS vendor’s site, I then do also search Experience API, Tin Can API and then, just to be safe, SCORM. If I come up blank, I make the call that this is not an xAPI conformant or ready LMS
- #21 And it’s going to take longer than you hoped it would
- #27 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).
- #29 Ask your LMS provider – it’s entirely possible that they’re planning on implementing LRS support within the year. In this case, you have a few options. You can sit and wait, and you could offer to beta test. (Megan) is a huge fan of being a part of your vendors’ beta testing process – there’s a lot of bonus points you can gain with your vendors and you can call in some chips. In the meantime, you can get a “sidecar” LRS for all your xAPI projects, something that you’re planning to discard once your LMS capability comes online. It’s a nice hedge against the promises of integration for the future that your LMS vendor makes. You’ll have two sets of reports in the meantime and you may need to export your xAPI “completions” to your LMS in case you need a single point of truth and reporting. But it’s not the worst thing in the world. You’ll want to make sure that you’re careful to keep your login information – your actor definitions – consistent between the two systems so that your hair doesn’t fall out trying to match up your data.