No One is Telling You What to Do

The Experience API is about the data and metrics that are important to you. It standardizes and collects, it doesn’t tell you how or what to do with that. It doesn’t go near content, content can be anywhere. Content can even be sidelined completely and…

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To Be Clear, This is Plumbing

The Experience API is plumbing. It’s not something that stands on it’s own. It’s not a thing you can buy. However, I highly recommend buying technologies that use xAPI. I would also love to help you figure out ways for your technology to use xAPI.…

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Big mLearnCon Thanks

We all just had an amazing experience at mLearnCon. Seriously. Mind blowing. Open, excited people came together around xAPI and had some really forward thinking, industry changing conversations. None of this would have been possible without the efforts of everyone at the eLearning Guild, especially…

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Inside Your Brain

How cool would it be if we could look inside our brains and see what we're learning and how we're learning it? But we can't do it. We can't manage learning. So what the heck are we doing with ourselves? Why are we building learning management systems and specifications…

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RIP RTWS

Innovation always builds on something prior. In 2009, LETSI (Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability) collected a fantastic set of white papers outlining problems in our industry that seemed worth solving. Working groups gathered to attempt to solve some of those problems. (more…)

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xAPI Alley is Live!

We are, right now, in xAPI Alley showing everyone at mLearnCon just how much awesome stuff the Experience API can do. I didn't want you to be left out, here are some ways you can participate from right where you are. These tools use xAPI…

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We’re going to mLearnCon, are you?

There are big things going on with the Experience API at mLearnCon, June 19th-21st in San Jose. Come to xAPI Alley Our reason, xAPI Alley. What's that? I'm glad you asked. The eLearning Guild has set up a space for all of the early adopters of…

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Welcome to TinCanAPI.com

My name is Andy and I’ll be your tour guide today.  Let’s go! First stop: What is xAPI?  Here you’ll learn what the Experience API is, how it works, and why it matters. This is also where we’ll showing you who the current adopters are…

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