A word of caution to PHP developers and others about xAPI timestamps. My involvement in xAPI or Experience API specification has led me to explore a number of finer technical details that I never imagined existed. The specification is pedantically precise in places, and it…
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Interoperability is maybe the single most important requirement for xAPI (xAPI) to succeed. And the most important step to interoperability is conformance. But, How do you know that your system actually conforms to the definition of a Learning Record Store (LRS)? The same way as…
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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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The Registry has been up for a few weeks. A number of people have created profiles and started using it to catalog their data types. It’s great! There are a couple things here, and it really comes down to the fact that we’re looking to…
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“If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you” — Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar Open efforts and open source are a big part of how the spec and adoption have made it to where we are today. Without the…
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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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The floodgates are open. It’s time to celebrate. The Experience API, version 1.0, is here today. It was almost three years ago when ADL asked the e-learning community to help them with research to create a new, simpler, more powerful e-learning standard. E-learning standards are…
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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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First, a story laced with truth and lies. A couple of years ago, Mike and I decided to hire remote employees at Rustici Software. As "managers", Mike and I felt it was important to visit our remote employees in their place of business once each…
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We have many folks that come to us from the SCORM world and want to know the difference between SCORM and xAPI. I answer this question so much that I thought its worth addressing (at a pretty high-level) in this blog post. First, I’ll unpack the…
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