Today the eLearning specification xAPI turns 10. It’s even longer since, as part of “Project Tin Can,” I created the draft “Tin Can” specification which xAPI is based on. With the birthday and the announcement of xAPI 2.0 becoming an IEEE standard, I can’t help…
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If you’ve thought about adding xAPI or cmi5 support into your application, you’ve probably heard that you need an LRS, but what does that mean? Overview of an LRS Let’s start with the acronym LRS, which stands for Learning Record Store. It is a place…
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If you want the advanced tracking capabilities that xAPI provides while having the ability to launch content from an LMS, then cmi5, an xAPI Profile, is likely an option you’re exploring. Once you’re ready to make the move to cmi5, migrating your existing SCORM content…
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It’s now been a decade since xAPI was first released, and as more organizations consider adding support, we’ve been answering more questions about how to implement the specification into an application. And we aren’t the only ones hearing about xAPI questions. The 2022: State of…
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As I prepared my presentation deck covering converting SCORM content to cmi5 for the fall xAPI Cohort Party, I reminisced about various parts of the CATAPULT project and the sometimes unexpected starts and stops we made while experimenting with creating the cmi5 course templates. One…
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Last week wraps up a year of work on Project CATAPULT, which is now officially being called cmi5 CATAPULT. To wrap up the project, Brian Miller and George Vilches led a webinar with the ADL Initiative to unveil the new cmi5 conformance tools that are…
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While xAPI provides newer, more modern data tracking, it doesn’t specify launching content in an LMS. cmi5, an xAPI Profile, solves the xAPI + LMS launch use case, but adoption rates have been slow because there were no tools or resources available to test conformance…
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When discussing cmi5 and Project CATAPULT, there’s a lot to talk about. The recent informative webinar, “cmi5 Overview and Way Ahead,” covered multiple topics and answered several attendee questions, but the hour was up quickly. If you missed the webinar, you can still view the…
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Whether you’re new to eLearning standards, anxiously waiting for widespread cmi5 adoption or somewhere in between, this Launching Project CATAPULT blog series will help you better understand the cmi5 specification and follow the project’s progress. cmi5 can play a key role in modernizing learning ecosystems…
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Theory teaches us how things should work, in a perfect world. Experience teaches us how they might—or might not—work, in an imperfect world. What better way to learn than to hear someone’s real world experience with the various learning tools and technologies before jumping into…
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