Posts by Megan Bowe

What Does Starting Mean for You?

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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Come Find Us at ASTD ICE 2013, Booth 577

If you’re planning to attend ASTD International Conference and Expo 2013 in Dallas, TX next week (5/19-5/22) and you’re curious about how your organization can begin taking advantage of the Experience API, come visit us at booth 577. We’d love to meet you and imagine…

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Use the 1.0.0 spec right now, literally.

Yes, the 1.0 specification release is today. And yes, all of our tools support it right now. We've spent a long time building towards this so that you did not have to wait a single moment for your gratification. Need an LRS? SCORM Cloud is…

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Hangouts and a Haircut

  // In advancing our mission to show what you can do today with xAPI I bring you our latest experiment, Google Hangouts. This was done partially for fun and partially because we at Rustici Software actually use Hangouts a lot for our real work…

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1.0 is almost here!

This is really happening! xAPI is so close to 1.0 that we can taste it, like Skittles. It’s been a great year. We handed the .9 version of the specification over to ADL’s working group just over a year ago. We’ve been working closely with…

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New Guest Blogger – Sean Putman!

I'm very happy to welcome Sean Putman to the blog. Sean is the Director of Training and Documentation at Altair. He has been working on a Experience API implementation in their product Hypermesh, it's freaking sweet! Sean has seen it all, 15 years in training…

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When Data Flows to Teachers in Realtime

We rolled out of SXSWedu with new xAPI tools that I’m very excited about. We’ve joined forces with Metryx and ABCYa to build something new that unites disparate, but incredibly important, initiatives in a strikingly useful way. The Problem Space When students are using different…

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It's Time for Profiles

I wrote a post a while back on verbs and promised a follow up on the other parts of a statement that can be defined by a person implementing xAPI. It’s January, so I guess it’s about time... Alright, alright, it's overdue. In a statement…

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Beyond Learning Systems

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="384"] Photo by pernillarydmark [/caption] Sometimes we all get a little too focused on one slice of the world. Technology that helps people learn is no small slice, but it is just one segment of the systems a company uses to conduct business.…

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Engine is Making 0.95 Look Easy

I’m really happy to say that the newest version of our Engines support the 0.95 Experience API spec! SCORM Cloud has supported 0.95 for a while, and we just updated the prototypes on our site to 0.95 as well. It’s a whole lot of awesome…

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