Part 2: Tracking Software Clicks with xAPI

// 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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Why Have E-learning Tools Adopted?

We spend a good amount of time working with software companies who build learning technology. The main question in these conversations is “Why should we adopt?” There are many reasons, some more theoretical than practical today (but who doesn’t love the ideal present?!) To break…

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xAPI projects underway at UMHS

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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The Open Source Landscape

“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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First xAPI Enabled Conference in the World

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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Mobile learning…what’s the deal?

mLearnCon 2013 is happening right now, and we thought this would be a good time to write about some related topics: Mobile learning. M-learning. Native apps. Tablets. Smart phones. Offline e-learning. HTML 5. These are all terms that we’ve been hearing a lot about in…

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What Does Starting Mean for You?

There are many people in the learning community who have varying relationships with technology. Some love. Some hate. Some love to hate. The only thing that I can really do is lay out options for starting. It mostly depends on how comfortable you are making…

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The World Just Changed

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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Experience API Being Used to Expand Markets

An example of Experience API being used to help a traditional business use eLearning to expand their market. When we were approached by Simpson Spence & Young (SSY), the world's largest independent shipbroking group, to create a learning tool to help them with their marketing,…

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Calling All xAPIners

So you've outfitted your organization with the Experience API, you've integrated an LRS into your world, and you're doing some cutting-edge e-learning stuff. Or maybe you have something interesting to do with xAPI on your roadmap. Whatever the case, we want to feature you in…

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