1.
Robin Petterd
Founder of Sprout Labs, host
of the Learning While Working
podcast and virtual
conference

2.
Sprout Labs builds digital learning platforms that enable you and
your team to author, deliver and measure high impact digital
learning ecosystems.

3.
Making it
easy
All our clients get an Learning Record Store if they
want
Glasshouse is drive by xAPI
xAPI forms in Glasshouse
Help you
manage
your data
Journeys in Glasshouse
Personalisation using triggers in Glasshouse
Do more
with your
data
Using machine learning with xAPI
Sprout Labs and xAPI

4.
• Virtual conference
• The Learning While Working podcast
• The blog
• eBooks
• The recordings of past webinars
Other content from Sprout Labs

5.
We are working and living in a period of time
that is becoming data-driven

6.
In L&D we are not good with data

7.
What is analytics?
The analysis of data - looking for patterns and
relationships
To do this we need to be working in data rich environment

8.
Would you use a phone from 2001?
SCORM 1.2 was released in 2001 - it’s old technology

9.
How is xAPI different to SCORM?
It’s a more flexible and detailed way to explain learning
Data can from come from beyond your LMS

10.
Why have some LMSs have been slow to add xAPI?

11.
What is xAPI?
A place to
store data
It’s a way of
explaining
learning
It’s a way to communicate
between systems
Statement
Learning Record
Store
Text
format
called
JSON
Application
Programming
Interface

12.
What does this mean for learning?
Potential outcomes
You can get detailed information about
what a learner is doing
You can 'design' what data you are
collecting
Enable sophisticated learning analytics
and new data driven approaches.
It doesn't have to be data from an LMS Your learning is not restricted to your
LMS - it’s a part of the eco-system

13.
xAPI in action
Learning
Record
Store
A Learning
platform e.g
Glasshouse
A traditional
LMS e.g Totara

14.
It’s flexible - but don’t reinvent the wheel

15.
{
"actor": {
"name": "Sally Glider",
"mbox": "mailto:sally@example.com"
},

16.
{
"actor": {
"name": "Sally Glider",
"mbox": "mailto:sally@example.com"
},
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/experienced",
"display": {"en-US": "experienced"}
},
Use existing verbs
There is a list at
https://registry.tincanapi.com/#home/verbs

17.
{
"actor": {
"name": "Sally Glider",
"mbox": "mailto:sally@example.com"
},
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/experienced",
"display": {"en-US": "experienced"}
},
"object": {
"id": "http://example.com/activities/solo-hang-gliding",
"definition": {
"type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/course",
"name": { "en-US": "Solo Hang Gliding" }
}
},
Use existing Activities
There is a list at
https://registry.tincanapi.com/#home/activityTypes

18.
{
"actor": {
"name": "Sally Glider",
"mbox": "mailto:sally@example.com"
},
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/experienced",
"display": {"en-US": "experienced"}
},
"object": {
"id": "http://example.com/activities/solo-hang-gliding",
"definition": {
"type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/course",
"name": { "en-US": "Solo Hang Gliding" }
}
},
"context": {
"instructor": {
"name": "Irene Instructor",
"mbox": "mailto:irene@example.com"
},
"contextActivities":{
"parent": { "id": "http://example.com/activities/hang-gliding-class-a" },
"grouping": { "id": "http://example.com/activities/hang-gliding-school" }
}
},

19.
{
"actor": {
"name": "Sally Glider",
"mbox": "mailto:sally@example.com"
},
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/experienced",
"display": {"en-US": "experienced"}
},
"object": {
"id": "http://example.com/activities/solo-hang-gliding",
"definition": {
"type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/course",
"name": { "en-US": "Solo Hang Gliding" }
}
},
"context": {
"instructor": {
"name": "Irene Instructor",
"mbox": "mailto:irene@example.com"
},
"contextActivities":{
"parent": { "id": "http://example.com/activities/hang-gliding-class-a" },
"grouping": { "id": "http://example.com/activities/hang-gliding-school" }
}
},
"result": {
"completion": true,
"success": true,
"score": {
"scaled": .95
}
}
}
Use existing
profiles
There is a list at
https://registry.tincanapi.com/#home/pr
ofiles

20.
Extensions
These are flexible
Adding - team, location, manager, browser

21.
Why vendors love xAPI
1. Because it’s a modern technology - it’s fast to work with
2. Its complexity means most L&D teams need assistance
to implement it

22.
Ways to generate statements
Learning platforms
Content authoring tools
Custom integrations
Some non-learning systems

23.
Should be called a learning record log
Most have visualisation tools
Doesn’t manage learning
Is not a portfolio of learning
You need a Learning Record Store to get
started

24.
Managing learning using journeys

25.
Choosing a Learning Record Store (LRS)
1. Do you want to do all your reporting in the LRS?
2. Where is the data being stored?
3. Do you need help from the LRS vendor for your project?
4. What are they like to work with?

26.
Three options for Learning Records Stores
This is what we use at Sprout
Labs

27.
We suggest you keep LMS and LRS separate
Three LMSs that include a Learning Record Store

28.
Working with a LMS and a Learning Record Store
Content
Traditional LMS
xAPI launch - defacto standard
Completion
Why - provides you with
rich detailed learner data

29.
Connect sources to your LRS
You need three things
Endpoint - e.g. https://lrs.sproutlabs.com.au/data/xAPI
LRS user username/public id - 96640156bf17df3211d1663
LRS user password/private key - 99a2c93a929c1660b97fa1

30.
How data focussed organisations are working with xAPI
Business Analytics
tools
PowerBI
Tableau
Qlik
Data warehouse

31.
Learning beyond your LMS - other learning systems

32.
Hospital 1 Hospital 2 Hospital 3
Sharing compliance data between hospitals
Podcast: Using a Learning Record Store to share data between healthcare organisations with
Robert LoPresti

33.
Learning Experience Platform
xAPI Apps

34.
So what do can you with the data? - a few learning
focused examples

35.
Understanding how people are learning -
Watershed’s case study on VISA

36.
HT2
Semantic
analysis
A natural language model
that has been trained to
find different types of
contributions
Podcast: Automating learning and measuring social learning with Ben Betts
Understanding what is working

37.
How is a learner
performing?
An R&D project we are working on at the
moment to predict learner performance

38.
Beyond your LMS - non learning data
e.g. business data, intranet

39.
Data from our
customer’s Net
Promoter Scores is
turned into xAPI
statements
This is a custom
integration
We correlate the NPS with
learning activity in customer
service related courses

40.
Learning
experience Performance supports on the
intranet

41.
Podcast: xAPI and Totara with Hamish Dewe

42.
Intranet
Personalisation using automations
Someone
visits a page
on selection
processes
An automation is triggered to
send an email message about
the selection process course
This is a piece of Javascript that generates the
statement

43.
Learning beyond your LMS - non digital learning

44.
Learning beyond your LMS - non digital
Integration Observe Record
Heart rate monitor during a
flight simulation sessions
Recording using a checklist
when different steps
happened during a
resuscitation simulation
Employee logs
The time a trigger was
pulled on a firearm during a
simulation
Workplace assessments
These examples are from the Learning Working Work podcast series on xAPI

45.
Authoring the checklist
Learning management system

46.
What is the impact going to be?
How are you going to measure the
impact?
What data will show that?
Podcast: xAPI for instructional designers with Megan Torrance

47.
I now think more about
assessments
On the job assessments
Simulations
Timed after learning

48.
Integrating different
sources
Designing the
statements
Collect everything
Technically the most
complex
Fewer more focused
statements
Often the only choice
you have when working
with an authoring tool
Yet’s xAPI Adapter - converts
CSV files to statements
Glasshouse xAPI forms
xapi.ly - Statement Builder
Designing the data

49.
Your first xAPI project

50.
Just getting all your data into a Learning Record Store
wouldn’t achieve much - it’s a stepping stone

51.
B.A.D.I.R.
1. Business question
2. Analysis plan
3. Data collection - this is where xAPI sits
4. Insights
5. Recommendations
Book - Behind Every Good Decision: How Anyone Can Use Business Analytics to
Turn Data into Profitable Insight - Piyanka Jain, Puneet Sharma. Also presented
at the 2018 Learning While Working virtual conference

52.
Making it
easy
All our clients get an Learning Record Store if they
want
Glasshouse is drive by xAPI
xAPI forms in Glasshouse
Help you
manage
your data
Journeys in Glasshouse
Personalisation using triggers in Glasshouse
Do more
with your
data
Using machine learning with xAPI
Sprout Labs and xAPI

53.
Dr Robin Petterd
M: +61 419 101 928
E: robin@sproutlabs.com.au
If you want to talk xAPI and how use the xAPI to enable
learning ecosystems and become data driven please
get in contact.
Our next webinar will be on learning analytics