I wrote an article for Learning Technologies Magazine this month. The premise of the article is that in a world where data is being collected in droves, we need to design better ways for people to understand what they’re giving up and ways for them…
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Note: this is a guest blog from Jeroen Krouwels, the Business Development Director of PAT Learning Solutions. On June 20, The Netherlands had a world premiere: the very first xAPI enabled conference worldwide: The Learning Summit, organized by PAT Learning Solutions, creator of PulseWeb, the…
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xAPI has been spreading internationally at an amazing speed. This month it’s become more evident than ever before. That’s partially because so many of us at Rustici Software have been on the road. We’re a small company, less than 25 people. Everyone is in Nashville,…
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Experience API Deep Dive: Verbs In continuing with our "Anatomy of a xAPI Statement" series, here's the next installment — verbs. In this post, I'll tell you a lot about how verbs work with the Experience API. If you have any questions at all, please…
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mLearnCon 2013 is happening right now, and we thought this would be a good time to write about some related topics: Mobile learning. M-learning. Native apps. Tablets. Smart phones. Offline e-learning. HTML 5. These are all terms that we’ve been hearing a lot about in…
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Yesterday, I hosted a webinar entitled "Rethinking Learning Systems with the Experience API". The attendees had more questions that we could answer during the live webinar, so I've posted your questions and my answers here. Q: What is TDS? A: TDS = Training Delivery System.…
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xAPI and Activity Streams have a lot in common. Many know that Activity Streams was the foundation for some of the core concepts in the xAPI, like the “I did this” statement structure. We based xAPI on Activity Streams because it's a brilliant model. By…
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Does a statement get recorded in an LRS if there is no one there to experience it? The Problem with Abstractions The Experience API is designed for recording information about experiences, but one of the assumptions is that someone, or a group of someones, has…
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The times are certainly changing. The Experience API is causing many organizations and products to think about how to embrace the future of e-learning, and that means re-thinking how learning systems work with the Experience API. Mike is giving a webinar next week on just…
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There are many people in the learning community who have varying relationships with technology. Some love. Some hate. Some love to hate. The only thing that I can really do is lay out options for starting. It mostly depends on how comfortable you are making…
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