On 9/11/14, we hosted a webinar for the Columbus chapter of ATD, and as usual, the attendees had more questions that we could answer during the live webinar, so we’ve posted the questions and the answers here. Q: With which SCORM versions is Experience API…
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// Last week we introduced the concept of a Recipe, a defined way to capture the same experience using the same set of statements across Activity Providers. This post will delve a bit further into how we got to the concept and the technical…
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For the Experience API (aka Experience API) to succeed, it needs continuous and consistent use by the community. But, xAPI is extremely flexible—which is both a benefit and a curse. One experience might be expressed several different ways by different systems, and this can make…
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Today we had a discussion centered around the creation of statements corresponding to the actions that a client likes to capture for a live event. One of the actions they consider important is “raising a hand”. This is also an action that is common in…
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Growing adoption of the Experience API is a core part of what I’m tasked to do around here. Providing high quality, easy to use, open source libraries is one of the best ways I know to do that (aside from writing blog posts, of course!).…
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Most of the companies we work with are at the ‘dipping a toe’ stage and test the xAPI waters with a small pilot project. We understand this approach, and encourage it as the first step in gaining adoption of xAPI across the organization. But over…
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As network speeds and the processing power of devices improves, the size of the files we use to capture our experiences, be they photos or other graphics, videos, or complex documents, increases. We need a way to associate these ever-growing files with the metadata capturing…
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Several times throughout the Deep Dive series I’ve mentioned “catch all” objects and a future post — here it is. The framers of the Experience API specification knew that the overall structure of a statement, particularly with its oft mentioned Actor-Verb-Object pattern, could capture a…
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Deep Dive: Result So far throughout the Deep Dive series that I’ve been writing, there has been one thing notably lacking, e-learning. It turns out that the framers of the Experience API specification hit on something big enough that it need not be boxed in…
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We have a treat for those who want details on how to best use statements to describe learning activities. This is going to be a very technical webinar (you can register for it here). If you’re not familiar with the xAPI specification, you might want…
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