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Making Future-focused Platform Decisions
with the xAPI Rob Houck, UL Compliance to Performance
Megan Torrance, TorranceLearning
Where are you on your xAPI journey?
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Activity Provider
Content
Activity Statement
Learning Record Store
You
Legacy content
Why xAPI?
• Learn more about the learning experience – not just elearning
• Learn more about the performance
• Correlate learning with performance
• Offer more targeted training • Support performance in better
ways • Use data to learn with others • Compare performance and
learning across learners • Deliver and track training
outside of the LMS
Why xAPI?
• Learn more about the learning experience – not just elearning
• Learn more about the performance
• Correlate learning with performance
• Offer more targeted training • Support performance in better
ways • Use data to learn with others • Compare performance and
learning across learners • Deliver and track training
outside of the LMS
xAPI is all about INTEROPERABILITY,
not silos.
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What is an LRS?
Answer #1 Learning Record Store Answer #2 It’s where we store training data. Answer #3 It’s a database where we send xAPI activity statements and retrieve them later for decision-making. Answer #4 It’s a next-generation LMS.
What does an LRS do?
The specification: • Accept, store & retrieve xAPI
activity statements The marketplace: • Reporting and analytics • Host xAPI resources • Admin functions • More!
LMS
Course enrollment Elearning hosting Learner plans SCORM, AICC ILT & VILT Video Social Gamification Reporting Admin functions + xAPI / LRS
LRS
xAPI Reporting & analytics Admin functions
+ Course enrollment + Elearning hosting + Learner plans + Video + Social + Gamification + External data
If the LMS and the LRS are blurring, what’s left to decide?
Concepts ahead are oversimplified to allow you the best opportunity to try on a model vs. try to get to the
nitty gritty of each individual situation.
The integrated approach
Users
Courses Enro
llmen
ts
SCORM Data
Reporting
Courses Classes
Certs
Badges
Soci
al L
earn
ing
Messaging
Perf
orm
ance
, Tal
ent h
ooks
Reporting
Games Sims Perf Supp
Dash
bo
ards
eCommerce
Import/Export Biz Data
LRS
SCORM data
The managed ecosystem approach
Users
Courses Classes
eCommerce
LRS Dash Boards
Games Sims Perf Supp
Reports
Social
Performance, Talent
Other Biz Data
Other LRSes
LMS
But don’t limit yourself to thinking inside the course.
There’s a lot going on outside of your courses: • Checklists & job aids • Social interaction • Mentoring • Observations • Assessments • Performance & talent mgmt • Actual work behavior stored in
other systems • Results of actual work behavior
stored in other systems
What do we do in the meantime?
If you don’t have an LMS & you don’t have SCORM …
Publish to xAPI. Get an LRS product. Rock and roll. Grow over time.
I have an LMS and I have lots of SCORM stuff. Now what?
Does your LMS already have xAPI?
Start with courses published to xAPI. • Test each development package
you use. • Work with support to make sure
scoring completion, etc. Experiment with learning that happens outside an elearning course. Experiment with dashboards and reporting. (and you’re not using it yet?)
Wait for your LMS to adopt xAPI
Offer to beta test. Get a sidecar LRS for your special projects and new projects. • Two sets of reports • Export xAPI “Completions”
LMS
Tip: Think through your index values – they have to line up.
Get a full featured LRS and work back to learning mgmt.
Relieve yourself of complexity of your LMS. Republish SCORM 1.2 courses to “speak xAPI.” Experiment with learning that happens outside an elearning course. Start killing SCORM.
Take two aspirin and …
In the meantime
Stop using SCORM where you can. If you have to, build for SCORM knowing you’ll use xAPI. • Flexible tools that do both • Follow best practices for xAPI
now Start asking the “x” question.
Questions to ask no matter what
• What does the integration look like?
• Will users see a difference? How about LMS managers?
• What does reporting look like? • What’s it cost? Do I need an
upgrade, or can I just “do it”? • What does a pilot look like?
Getting started
Prêt-à-porter Day hikes Look for the right project & sponsor Start where there is no LMS legacy You can’t sell the alphabet soup.
FORMING STORMING NORMING PERFORMING
xAPI needs geeks Geek-free tools
emerging
Communities of Practice work to define usage
Learn-by-doing in Cohorts
Conformance Certification
Formal learning opportunities & certification
Project Tin Can Specification Standard
More common than SCORM
We are ready for NORMING!
What will you take away?
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