3. Tour the campus & buildings
Explore benefit package
Take a skills assessment
Attend webinar
Attend a class
Rate your experience
Complete online course
Observe the job being done
Receive coaching
Watch a video
Follow a blog
Read a book by an expert
Elearning: Welcome & virtual tour
Elearning: Log into LMS
Elearning: Plant tour
Class: Your benefits & you
Class: Email and You
Elearning: Who’s who
Elearning: Our customers
Class: Finance 101
Recorded webinar
Webinar
Multiple choice test
Practice doing the job
Job shadow
Class: Using the intranet
Onboarding Plan BOnboarding Plan A
4. xAPI is …
X = experience
API = application programming interface
Specification for sending, storing, retrieving
activity about learning and performance
experiences
Not so much “next generation SCORM”
as it is “what will replace SCORM.”
Experience API is
…
Tin Can API is …
6. What can you do with 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
9. STEP 1:
Send the
data
Use your current elearning authoring tools
Get your product vendor to send the data
Use xapiapps to assemble things that aren’t xAPI
into a thing that is
Write some custom code
10. AUTHORING TOOLS
Out of the box:
• SCORM-like transactions
• Individual page views
• Actions and triggers (depends)
With a little JavaScript or with xAVIER:
• Any action or trigger you want
More info:
www.xapiquarterly.com (Sean Putman), xAPI Cohort Fall 2017 results
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11. MISC OTHER OPTIONS
Not really “authoring tools,” but very deep
learning experiences, LMCSes, etc. that send
xAPI data.
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12. First tool we’ve found outside L&D that uses xAPI
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15. Claire read Business Writing for
ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes
Lindsey watched the Company History video
Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
16. Actor verb object
Actor verb object context
Claire read Business Writing for
ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes
Lindsey watched the Company History video
Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
17. Mohammed wrote a blog post about local theatre
that got 45 views and 3
commentsOron rated ATD event Essentials of
Creating Learning Experiences
with xAPI @MMTorrance 4
stars “coffee rocked, nice use
of WebEx”
Cynthia completed Oil Change Upselling score
60%Ladan simulated landing at DTW
Arthi simulated landing at DTW in SimSuite #4
and was rated 98% by
Instructor
Claire read Business Writing for
ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes
Lindsey watched the Company History video
Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
18.
19. Kirkpatrick Levels
of Training Evaluation + Cathy Moore
19
Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
On the Job
Behaviors
!
Knowledge &
Retention: Testing
Business
Results
Level 1
Satisfaction &
Experience
23. First pick
a project
SCORM is not the (best) answer.
The project’s sponsor is on board.
There’s plenty of data.
You can capture or get to the data you need.
25. FORMING STORMING NORMING PERFORMING
xAPI needs geeks Geek-free tools emerge
Communities of Practice work to define usage
Conformance & Certification emerge
Project Tin Can Specification Standard
More common
than SCORM
Is xAPI ready for prime time?
27. Get started!
www.torrancelearning.com/xapi-
cohort
Free 12-week, vendor-neutral learning-by-doing-in-teams experience.
Weekly web meetings Thursdays 2-3pm ET (recorded). Winter/Spring &
Fall
Ad hoc teams form to tackle a project together and provide weekly report-
outs.
ASK: Using your pointer tool, put your name on which onboarding plan you’d rather participate in.
DISCUSS: Why did you pick that?
xAPI is …
X = experience
API = application programming interface
Specification for sending, storing, retrieving activity
Some say that xAPI is next gen SCORM
Like my smart phone
SCORM only tracks 5 boring things
“X” for Experience, not LAPI – “learning” … track all sorts of things.
And here’s the thing: you can do all of these things without xAPI. You just build them yourself. The technology is there – actually, its existed for years and some of you are already doing this.
When you do these things with xAPI you are using an interoperable platform for communication – you can add and change pieces, vendors, platforms with far greater ease.
There are three “parts” to xAPI: The Learning Record Provider, the Activity Statement and the Learning Record Store.
The Learning Record Provider is what’s sending the data – if it’s an elearning situation, then the activity provider is the course.
You are the one doing the thinking here.
The content is what you’re talking about. Again, if we’re talking about elearning, the content is … your content.
The Activyt Statement is the format with which we’re sending the data. To be honest, the funnel doesn’t really hold up well as a metaphor.
And we’re pouring all these statements into a Learning Record Store, which is a database that stores it all. At some point it may or may not have to mix in with some legacy content and data in order to make sense.
Out of the box, you can expect data that’s a lot like SCORM, plus individual page views, question answers and a few other things you couldn’t get with SCORM. dominKnow and Lectora support a wider variety of statements based on actions and triggers. All of these tools you can add custom JavaScript to action triggers and send statements to the LRS.
ADD SLIDE: For example, our project with University of North Carolina – see us at DemoFest – where we have custom JS added to all sorts of actions in a Storyline course – question sets individually and totals, downloading resources, entering text on screen.
With xapiapps you’ll get transactions like
Here are some human readable activity statements.
ASK: What’s the pattern here?
The pattern is that there’s an Actor, a verb, and an object.
We can also add context about any of the items – actor, verb, or object
Similarly the 70/20/10 model.
HOW TO GET STARTED
Pick a first project
Platform & tools you’ll need to get started
What I’ve learned in working with vendors & partners
HOW TO GET STARTED
Pick a first project
Platform & tools you’ll need to get started
What I’ve learned in working with vendors & partners
That’s awesome, but what do I do next?
Wikipedia: Dr Bruce Tuckman published his Forming Storming Norming Performing model in 1965. He added a fifth stage, Adjourning, in the 1970s. The Forming Storming Norming Performing theory is an elegant and helpful explanation of team development and behaviour (US spelling: behavior).