// 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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Our resident xAPI expert, Brian Miller, has been working on an updated .NET library that supports xAPI 1.0.0+. Great news! As of today, it's available here for you to use. What’s changed? The .NET Library has been completely rewritten. It now reflects the same architecture…
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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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We're building free tools for the xAPI community, and we want to know which ones you'd like us to build. Back story: We're trying a special project. We're hiring interns to build some of the xAPI tools that we don't have the time to build…
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Last week, we did a webinar that showcased the most advanced deployment of the Experience API that we've seen to date. We always get a lot of questions during webinars, but we never have time to answer all of them during the webinar—so we answer…
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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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It’s happening! We created the Watershed First program to see if we could find six innovative companies that wanted to push the boundaries of e-learning with the Watershed LRS and the Experience API. Boy, did we find six! We had over 100 applicants, and it…
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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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