Posts by Andrew Downes

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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Adopter Spotlight – TES

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. TES is an off-the-shelf xAPI tool that lets you track job performance —…

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Deep Dive: Interoperability and the Document APIs

Sharing Documents successfully So far in this Deep Dive series on the Document API I’ve introduced you to the Document APIs in general and then looked in detail at each Document API in turn. In this final post of the series, we’ll explore two important complexities…

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Adopter Spotlight – Riptide Elements

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. Probably the most talked about of our adopters following the webinar has been…

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