People learn a lot from YouTube. Some companies have libraries of videos on YouTube that they use for formal training, or maybe you just want to watch a video to learn something useful on your own. Ervin has been busy building a practical tool that…
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// This is a follow-up blog from the amazing Sean Putman, who originally guest blogged for us in March. You can read his first post here. Huge thanks to Sean for writing up these posts to share his real world-experience with the API. We have a…
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Note: this is a guest blog from Ellen Meiselman, who does technical strategy and analysis for the UMHS. I work for the University of Michigan Health System, on the Learning Management Team. We run the enterprise LMS, create online learning activities for use across UMHS,…
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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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Note: this is a guest blog from Jeroen Krouwels, the Business Development Director of PAT Learning Solutions. On June 20, The Netherlands had a world premiere: the very first xAPI enabled conference worldwide: The Learning Summit, organized by PAT Learning Solutions, creator of PulseWeb, the…
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In a classroom situation, teachers use many apps and systems to capture learning data. The problem is that most of those data sets live in different systems and different formats. xAPI makes it possible for all of those systems to report data in a normalized…
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// 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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Background I work for a software manufacturer who is looking for ways to certify our users. Not just on written tests, but actual use of the software. If we are going to certify the users we want to know they are following the correct process…
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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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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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