Why Aren’t We Talking About Content?

One thing that I hear often from people working with learning technology is that there are a lot of standards: they seem to compete and that makes it really hard to know what one is supposed to do about these new standards. One common thing…

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xAPI support coming to Lectora

There's little that makes a xAPI Evangelist happier than when we hear about a new Experience API adopter. And I must admit, this latest announcement has us grinning from ear to ear! Lectora®, one of the world's leading e-Learning authoring tools used by most Global…

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The Road To xAPI

The road to the Experience API has been a long one, and a notable part of that journey happened in 2008. Back then, LETSI (Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability) asked the e-learning community to submit their formal (and informal) thoughts about what “SCORM 2.0” should…

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Three Reasons Instructional Designers Need to Know about xAPI

So, I’m an instructional designer, with an emphasis on design.  I learned about acronyms like AICC and SCORM purely in self-defense, so my eyes wouldn’t cross when I talked to developers.  And honestly – it wasn’t that important for me to know that much about…

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Our New Guest Blogger – Julie Dirksen!

With the guest blogger series, we're looking to pull in the views and opinions of people across the community who are all part of the bigger ecosystem xAPI plays in. That's why we're really happy to have Julie here. She's brilliant and has been designing…

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Badges, xAPI, and Boy Scouts

A lot of people have been coming to me to talk about xAPI lately (right, obviously… this is my job.) Anyway, a good number of them have a specific interest in badges. They want to give people badges as symbol of completion or accomplishment. They…

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What’s Going on with the Spec Right Now?

That’s an excellent question. If you’ve been following the hashtag on twitter (#TinCanAPI) or watching the mailing list, you may have noticed a flurry of activity. Currently the Experience API spec is at version .90, it’s moving to .95 at the end of August. That…

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Ready to Play with Storyline and xAPI?

It’s here! Storyline’s Update 1 supports xAPI! What does this mean to you? You, yes you, can make xAPI statements, right now. You can see them too, in our SCORM Cloud. I’m going to tell you how. Lucky for me, Articulate did the hard part.…

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SCORM Engine is ready to spread some xAPI love!

If we had a mountain close by, we'd be shouting this from the very top. Seeing as we don't, this blog post will have to do. SCORM Engine 2012.1 is officially available, and it includes support for the Experience API. For those of you new…

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Make a Statement

Who doesn’t want to make a statement? If you’re shy, I understand. Luckily, we’re all friends here. If you don’t believe me, go look at the public endpoint. There’s a lot of strange (probably made up) people making statements together there. My point... right. We…

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