Calling Adopters!

Since joining Rustici Software at the start of November, I’ve been working my way through the list of adopters on tincanapi.com: making contact, updating and adding entries and helping people to do xAPI better. I’m now getting to the end of that list, so this…

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Getting the Details Right: ISO 8601 Timestamps

A word of caution to PHP developers and others about xAPI timestamps. My involvement in xAPI or Experience API specification has led me to explore a number of finer technical details that I never imagined existed. The specification is pedantically precise in places, and it…

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News to Me: Statement Forwarding

Since joining Rustici Software at the start of November 2014, I’ve been discovering some interesting products and features within Rustici Software and outside. This "News to Me" series of blogs highlights some of these surprises! One of the key benefits of xAPI is that data…

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Conformance Testing—A Huge Step for xAPI

Interoperability is maybe the single most important requirement for xAPI (xAPI) to succeed. And the most important step to interoperability is conformance. But, How do you know that your system actually conforms to the definition of a Learning Record Store (LRS)? The same way as…

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Who Did It?

Was it the butler, or Mrs Brown with the Candlestick in the Conservatory? Choosing the actor of your xAPI statement can be a bit of a puzzle… Brian Miller’s deep dive into Agents is a great introduction into the technical structure of the Agent object…

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Better Blended Learning

I'm very excited... from this month, I'm going to be contracting for Rustici Software and working with some of the leading experts on the Experience API. I’ve been contributing to development of xAPI in my spare time for a few years and now Rustici Software…

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How One of the Largest Employers in the World is Using xAPI

Note: this is a guest blog from Richard Price, the Information Systems Manager at Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. In simple terms, xAPI is just a technology standard, but it’s what we can do with it which is generating the most excitement in our respective…

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ATD xAPI Basics Webinar Q&A

On 9/11/14,  we hosted a webinar for the Columbus chapter of ATD, and as usual,  the attendees had more questions that we could answer during the live webinar, so we’ve posted the questions and the answers here. Q: With which SCORM versions is Experience API…

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