Is it time to get on board with xAPI (xAPI)? YES! It’s not only changing the way we deliver and track L&D activities, it’s also widely adopted by vendors that you want to work with. I could spout off tons of various organizations, vendors and…
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There are so many great xAPI (xAPI) related events and conference activities going on this quarter, many of them this month! Andrew pulled a list together—here’s a quick overview of what’s going on: January 14th-16th: ATD TechKnowledge. See here, here and here for lists of…
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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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Last January I made some predictions for the xAPI world in 2014 and did surprisingly well. In this post I review my 2014 predictions and make some fresh ones for 2015. At the start of 2014 I predicted a year with little change to the…
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Since joining Rustici Software at the start of November, I’ve been working my way through the list of adopters on tincanapi.com: making contact, updating and adding entries and helping people to do xAPI better. I’m now getting to the end of that list, so this…
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A word of caution to PHP developers and others about xAPI timestamps. My involvement in xAPI or Experience API specification has led me to explore a number of finer technical details that I never imagined existed. The specification is pedantically precise in places, and it…
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Since joining Rustici Software at the start of November 2014, I’ve been discovering some interesting products and features within Rustici Software and outside. This "News to Me" series of blogs highlights some of these surprises! One of the key benefits of xAPI is that data…
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Interoperability is maybe the single most important requirement for xAPI (xAPI) to succeed. And the most important step to interoperability is conformance. But, How do you know that your system actually conforms to the definition of a Learning Record Store (LRS)? The same way as…
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Was it the butler, or Mrs Brown with the Candlestick in the Conservatory? Choosing the actor of your xAPI statement can be a bit of a puzzle… Brian Miller’s deep dive into Agents is a great introduction into the technical structure of the Agent object…
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On Thursday, October 23rd, 2014, we hosted a webinar about how PANDORA and Tribridge are using xAPI to correlate training to employee performance using sales data. As usual, the attendees had more questions that we could answer during the live webinar, so we’ve posted the…
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