That’s an excellent question. If you’ve been following the hashtag on twitter (#TinCanAPI) or watching the mailing list, you may have noticed a flurry of activity. Currently the Experience API spec is at version .90, it’s moving to .95 at the end of August. That…
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It’s here! Storyline’s Update 1 supports xAPI! What does this mean to you? You, yes you, can make xAPI statements, right now. You can see them too, in our SCORM Cloud. I’m going to tell you how. Lucky for me, Articulate did the hard part.…
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Who doesn’t want to make a statement? If you’re shy, I understand. Luckily, we’re all friends here. If you don’t believe me, go look at the public endpoint. There’s a lot of strange (probably made up) people making statements together there. My point... right. We…
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You're tired of hearing us talk. We're tired of hearing ourselves talk. Glad we're agreeing so far. Now we're bringing you a series of posts from people who are, importantly, not us. People in learning and the xAPI communities, out there trying to make things…
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I've been spending a lot of time with teachers and K-12 lately. One of the main things that I've heard in using technology in the classroom or online is that scaling is hard. When kids get moving with an app or site, they accelerate like…
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By making your content accessible, you can get wildly better xAPI data. This post is related to another post on how xAPI separates presentation from content and makes accessibility easier to do. (more…)
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To do accessibility well, presentation and content need to be able to be completely separated. xAPI allows this separation and does not add complication to it. (more…)
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It would be awesome if it were all pool parties, summer camp, ice cream, and sleep overs... It's not. (more…)
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The Experience API is about the data and metrics that are important to you. It standardizes and collects, it doesn’t tell you how or what to do with that. It doesn’t go near content, content can be anywhere. Content can even be sidelined completely and…
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The Experience API is plumbing. It’s not something that stands on it’s own. It’s not a thing you can buy. However, I highly recommend buying technologies that use xAPI. I would also love to help you figure out ways for your technology to use xAPI.…
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