A quick "what is xAPI" and "what would you measure that you can't do with SCORM" discussion followed by a look at 2 major projects ("Adventures") and 4 quick small projects to get you started ("Day Hikes"). Wraps up with a "state of the xAPI" for instructional designers
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What is xAPI?
“x” = experience
“API” = application programming interface
Simple, lightweight way to store and retrieve records
Data interoperability specification for
learning & performance experiences
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When we live in a SCORM world …
We focus on the instruction & the media in elearning.
Developer tools do the heavy lifting for SCORM.
We don’t think much about data or reporting.
We may struggle to tie learning “completions” to organization results.
We probably don’t track out-of-LMS learning at depth or scale.
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In an xAPI world …
We focus on the instruction & the media & the data in everything.
There are few rich developer tools do the heavy lifting for xAPI yet.
We now get to think about data and reporting.
We can tie learning & behavior to organization results if we do it right.
We can track out-of-LMS learning at depth and scale.
We can import behaviors & organizational results tied to learning.
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In an xAPI world …
awesome.
NOW WHAT DO I DO!??!?
Relax. You already know what to do.
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Stop thinking about your courses
Start thinking about your questions.
Start thinking about what data would help you answer those
questions.
You’re already using some ID concepts and techniques that will
lend themselves well to an xAPI world …
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Designasolutiontomeetstated
needs
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Respondtoquestionscorrectly
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Decidea courseofaction
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Collect &enterdata
accurately
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Nailroofshinglessafely
Practice in Training
Know . . .
Business Goal
thatsolvesa
Business Problem
Adapted from: Cathy Moore
Cathy Moore’s Action Mapping
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The 5 (9) Moments of Learning Need
5 Moments of Learning Need: Gottfredson & Mosher
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/949/
9 Moments of Need: Torrance
https://www.td.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-
Archive/2014/09/Nine-Moments-of-Learning
Apply
New
More
Solve
Change
SCORM
xAPI
SCORM
Before
Prepare
Remember
Teach
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So what’s an instructional designer to do?
Skills you need:
• Instructional Design
• Written Communication
• Visual Communication
• Developer Tools
• Project Management
• JavaScript
• Data Science
• Data smarts
• Good questions
• Business acumen
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What do we mean by an Adventure?
A big project
Mission critical, or at least important
If it fails, we risk breaking things.
We learn – and share – a lot from it.
It’s a growth experience.
You need equipment: Activity Provider and a
Learning Record Store (LRS)
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What are we learning?
IoT requires infrastructure … or not.
Plan through the structure of the data (school standards, exhibits,
interactions, branching) BEFORE you get too far.
Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate:
• With actual learners
• By running reports – what questions do we really have?
• With sponsors and stakeholders
WARNING: Dashboards can be little more than eye-candy.
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What are we learning?
Beta test with multiple LRS endpoints
How (does) your endpoint handle large gaps in time?
Think carefully about your data – working with the people who will use it.
Become friends with Excel. Really close friends.
Mix & match with developer tools & web objects for xAPI.
Even in a SCORMy-like situation, xAPI may get you a better user
experience.
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What is a day hike?
Those first-step projects that:
• Show real impact
• Help you figure out your data issues
• Prove your point
• Free or very low cost
• (Maybe even under the radar)
Things you can pick up and do
without breaking other things.
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Why do you need a day hike?
You can’t sell xAPI. (no one cares)
You can sell the connection between improved learning
data and better organizational outcomes.
You probably need a proof-of-concept.
You have to show it.
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The hypomnema
Where can I get it?
https://github.com/Tor
ranceLearning/bookma
rklet
tincanapi.com/
bookmarklet/
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The experience learning to do list
Where can I get it?
https://github.com/Tor
ranceLearning/xAPI-
Gnome
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Smart Learning: performance-based
Customizing the
learning
experience based
on actual
performance in the
real world.
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Smart Learning: connecting
Connecting with
others based on
learning and
performance data
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FORMING STORMING NORMING PERFORMING
xAPI needs geeks Geek-free
tools emerge
Communities of Practice work to define usage
Learn-by-doing in Cohorts
Conformance Certification
Formal training opportunities
Project Tin Can Specification Standard
More common
than SCORM
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So what did we learn?
Megan Torrance
CEO, TorranceLearning
Connect with me
mtorrance@torrancelearning.com
@MMTorrance
@xAPIGnome
@Tlearning
@MyEleventure
linkedin.com/in/megantorrance
Key takeaways?
Watch SlideShare and Twitter
for more references
and information
… or email me.
Notes de l'éditeur
xAPI lets us track learning and experiences that happen outside the LMS. As an instructional designer, are you ready to step up to this challenge? In this session, we’ll discuss the opportunities and the challenges that xAPI (the Experience API or Tin Can API) creates for instructional designers, and offer a few models for taking advantage of this more robust and interesting tracking of the learning process. While the “big 3” developer platforms can publish a course for xAPI, the capabilities go far beyond tracking the experience inside a course. We’ll touch briefly on:
Action Mapping and how it can help us identify data needs and sources
A taxonomy we can use to compare learning experiences
We’ll wrap up by identifying ways to get started with first projects in xAPI and where to learn more about this new technology.
SCORM is just fine if everything you need to learn and track can be housed in your LMS. And you only learn when you’re connected to the internet and logged into the LMS.
xAPI is a simple, lightweight way to store and retrieve records about learners and share this data across platforms. These records (known as activity statements) can be captured in a consistent format from any number of sources (known as activity providers) and they are aggregated in a learning record store (or LRS). The LRS is analogous to the SCORM database in an LMS.
The “x” in xAPI is short for “experience” and implies that these activity providers are not just limited to traditional AICC- and SCORM-based e-learning. With xAPI you can track classroom activities, usage of performance support tools, participation in online communities, mentoring discussions, performance assessment, actual business results, and so on. The goal is to create a full picture of an individual’s learning experience and how that relates to her performance.
“API” stands for application programming interface, a common method for software systems to interact and share data. xAPI activity statements can be generated by activity providers and sent to the LRS, or they can be sent from the LRS to other systems. Many current applications offer APIs to make their data available in other systems, and vice versa.
Imagine you are the museum. The Hands-On Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in fact. You compete with all the other field trip options in a 50 mile radius, and a whole host of entertainment options for families. Nearly 1 in 5 visitors to the museum comes as a field trip group. That’s a pretty big chunk of visitors – and revenue – for a museum that gets 70% of its annual budget from earned revenue – people coming in the door, paying admission, buying things in the gift shop.
You want to know if kids actually learn on their trip. You want to make that relevant to their curricula so the teachers come back. And you want to make it fun and memorable so the students come back with their families – and siblings – on the weekend.
Can you use their school trip to engage them enough to get them to return?
Multiple choice question type
So, now that you’ve seen what we created, we wanted to also share with you what we took away from the entire experience.