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Introduction to xAPI (Experience API) for newcomers, particularly instructional designers and learning managers.
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- 1. xAPI: An Intro for Instructional Designers Megan Torrance | mtorrance@torrancelearning.com xAPI Party | May 2019 iStock_000015727078
- 2. Where are you on your xAPI journey? iStock 000005088389
- 3. As an instructional designer … What is xAPI? How do I send data? What data do I send? Where do I send it? How do I keep it organized? How do I learn more?
- 5. Onboarding Plan BOnboarding Plan A Tour the campus & buildings Class: Your benefits & you Take a skills assessment Webinar: LMS & Your Learning Class: Finance 101 Rate your experience Elearning: Our Customers Observe the work process Receive coaching from a mentor Watch a video Follow a blog Read a book by an expert Elearning: Welcome & virtual tour Elearning: Log into LMS Elearning: Tour our Campus Class: Your benefits & you Class: Email and You Elearning: Who’s who Elearning: Our customers Class: Finance 101 Recorded webinar: Our LMS Part 1 Webinar: LMS & Your Learning Multiple choice test: Your Job Role Practice activities on work process Job shadow an experienced employee Class: Using the intranet
- 6. 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 …
- 7. SCORM Time Score Location Status Answers Actor verb object Actor verb object context xAPI lego.com
- 8. Learning Record Provider Content Activity Statement Learning Record Store You Other & Legacy data Adobe Stock 158410923
- 9. Actor verb object Actor verb object result context Claire read Business Writing for ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes Lindsey watched the Company History video Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
- 10. Mohammed published a blog post titled “10 Ways xAPI is better than SCORM” Oron rated event xAPI for Instructional Designers 5 stars “coffee rocked, nice use of PowerPoint” with @MMTorrance Cynthia sold premium synthetic oil Ladan simulated landing at DTW successfully Arthi simulated landing at DTW successfully with a score of 98% in SimSuite #4 by Instructor Tim Claire read Business Writing for ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes Lindsey watched the Company History video Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling Cynthia completed Oil Change Upselling score 60% Actor verb object result context
- 12. What can you do 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
- 13. Getting Started Adobe Stock 79551218
- 14. 5 ways to send the data Use your current elearning authoring tools Get your product vendor to send the data Use aggregator like xapiapps to assemble things that aren’t xAPI into a thing that is Write some custom code Import from business data
- 15. AUTHORING TOOLS Out of the box: • SCORM-like transactions • Individual page views • Actions and triggers (depends) With a little JavaScript or with xapi.ly: • Any action or trigger you want THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 17. OTHER ACTIVITY PROVIDERS Not really “authoring tools,” but very deep learning experiences, LMCSes, etc. that send xAPI data. THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 18. xapiapps
- 19. Tools that originate outside of the L&D space are starting to adopt xAPI … because someone asked! THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 20. Got it. So where does the data go?
- 21. 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)
- 22. 2 ways to receive data: the Learning Record Store You send data to an LRS separate from an LMS. Your LMS has an LRS inside it.
- 23. What can you do with the data? Evaluate & improve the learning experience Dashboards and visualizations for decision- making Personalization of pathways Recommendations for content Action triggers & rules
- 24. Take 2 aspirin… Adobe Stock 63038227
- 25. Start learning more … xAPI Camp xAPI Hands-On & Geek-Free ATD LearnNow Learning Solutions Magazine xAPI Learning Cohort www.learnxapi.com Vendor sites
- 26. 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.
- 27. Megan Torrance mtorrance@torrancelearning.com @MMTorrance | @xAPIGnome | @Tlearning Questions & Thoughts? 28
Editor's Notes
- Poll Question: Where are you on your xAPI journey? Stay standing if you can spell xAPI Stay standing if you know what the x stands for in xAPI Stay standing if you have sent an activity statement Stay standing if you have received an activity statement in an LRS Stay standing if you have made a business decision based on an activity statement you’ve received in the LRS
- Fitbit: www.fitbit.com Google: www.megalytics.com Jumpforward: www.jumpforward.com
- ASK: Using your pointer tool, put your name on which onboarding plan you’d rather participate in. DISCUSS: Why did you pick that?
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- “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.
- 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
- 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.
- With xapiapps you’ll get transactions like
- That’s awesome, but what do I do next?