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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The Activity Type property is optional, but shouldn’t be forgotten. One of the wonderful things about my job as a xAPI Evangelist working with adopters is that I get to see and comment on how people are using xAPI, and in particular, what data they’re…
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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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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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With two toddlers at home, I’m fairly used to short, choppy sentences as a manner of communication. I have whole books filled with them, granted they are only about 15 pages long with type even my grandfather can see. And while most of the time…
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// A lot can be done with xAPI and videos, and this post is about how I overcame some technical hurdles with YouTube’s API, specifically. First of all, for basic setup of the YouTube player we follow the instructions here. We will need to include…
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In the other posts in this series I've covered some big topics with a post each, but not all properties of xAPI statements need quite so much attention. The Actor-Verb-Object pattern commonly pointed out as the basis of xAPI statements is tremendous for deriving meaning…
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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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