A Tale of Three LRSs

We recently collaborated on a project to share statements between three LRSs by three different vendors. This three-part blog series outlines the project, explores some use cases for sharing statements and then dives into the technical details. You’ll find similar (but distinct) blogs by the…

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Experience API (xAPI) Open Source Roundup

We’ve had some great contributions from the community over the last three months, and thrown in a little of our own time to push a bunch of our open source libraries and tools forward. Here’s a summary: TinCanJava - 0.7.0 Hot off the press is…

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Updating the Prototypes

The prototypes have been with us since the beginning. Recently I’ve given them an update from a tracking design perspective. In the beginning, before xAPI version 0.9 and before you or I had even heard of xAPI, there were the prototypes. These example activities helped…

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xAPI (Tin Can) Meetup @ ATD ICE 2015

Everybody who’s anybody in e-learning has heard of either ‘Experience API’ or ‘Experience API’ and most of you have questions: What’s the impact on my learning design? What are some examples of real world projects? I’m sold; how do I get buy in from my…

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Adopter Spotlight – CM Group

Our January webinar reviewing how eight companies are using xAPI (xAPI) has had a lot of attention. In this blog series, we refresh your memory of what each company is up to. Luminosity by CM Group is a great example of a relatively traditional system…

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Webinar Q&A: Nine Practical Uses of the Experience API (xAPI)

On Tuesday, March 31st, 2015, we hosted a webinar about nine practical use cases of the Experience API (xAPI). As usual, the attendees had more questions than we could answer during the live webinar, so we’ve posted the questions and Andrew Downes' answers here. Q:…

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Adopter Spotlight – ZebraZapps

Our January webinar reviewing how eight companies are using xAPI (xAPI) has had a lot of attention. In this blog series, we refresh your memory of what each company is up to. ZebraZapps is one of the first authoring tools to go beyond replicating SCORM…

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An Open Can of Tin Badges

People have been talking about a crossover between Open Badges and the Experience API (xAPI) since 2012. Blogs have been written, ideas shared and there’s even a Twitter account that got set up at one point! Nobody has actually come to the point of defining…

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Adopter Spotlight – tessello

Our January webinar reviewing how eight companies are using xAPI (xAPI) has had a lot of attention. In this blog series, we refresh your memory of what each company is up to. tessello is a great example of a different kind of LMS powered by…

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Adopter Spotlight – TorranceLearning

Our January webinar reviewing how eight companies are using xAPI (xAPI) has had a lot of attention. In this blog series, we refresh your memory of what each company is up to. The TorranceLearning and Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum’s RFED (Radio Frequency Education) project shows…

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