Posts by Andrew Downes

I Want This: Tin Can Plans, Goals and Targets

Learning plans, goals and targets are important. Setting goals for learning allows us to evaluate whether or not we are learning the things that we set out to learn. It’s standard practice for e-learning courses and qualifications to have learning outcomes attached to them, and…

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Finding the Source

Statements come from all kinds of places: content created in authoring tools, mobile apps, learning platforms and business systems. It’s not always immediately obvious which application the statement came from, which might be useful to know. This blog explains how you can tag the statements…

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New Recipe: Attendance

I’m super excited about the latest recipe we’ve published on the registry! Not only is it a great recipe tackling an important use case, but it was written by adopters who needed it for a real project. It was written incredibly rapidly, going from first…

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Keeping time part 2: Duration for Activity Providers

What’s the difference between session duration and attempt duration? Timestamp or Stored? When should you record time taken and how can you report it? This series of blogs will look specifically at duration and how to report on it. The SCORM veterans at Rustici Software…

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How to share statements

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…

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Keeping time part 1: Defining Duration

What’s the difference between session duration and attempt duration? Timestamp or Stored? When should you record time taken and how can you report it? This series of blogs will look specifically at duration and how to report on it. Let’s start our first blog by…

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Why share statements?

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…

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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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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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