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An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI

eLearningMind

But in 2010, after putting out a call for vendors to develop a set of next-gen eLearning standards, the governing body of SCORM, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), tasked a company—Rustici Software—with that responsibility. The result was SCORM 2.0. The effort was dubbed Project Tin Can. And what is xAPI used for? The answer?

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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

With the advent of Flash, many authoring tools started creating output that could be played by the Flash player, which meant you didn’t need special software to use the courses (if your IT org would support you having it). The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough.

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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

eLearning 24-7

Some vendors won’t use SCORM because it takes time to add and implement it. Fast forward to the early 2000s, and a US government-sponsored group, the ADL Initiative, took the best of AICC, added some much-needed changes, and SCORM 1.0 Which one should I use when creating or purchasing content? SCORM is not easy to learn.

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An explanation of cmi5 in (mostly) plain English

Rustici Software

A few reasons why you’ll want to consider creating or buying cmi5 courseware: cmi5 is not dependent on a browser to communicate or launch courses, content or experiences. The content author creates AUs (learning activities) that use xAPI to capture advanced learner data and assembles the AUs into a course structure with instructions.

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Learning technology procurement: 5 best practices for L&D

Rustici Software

Your content player vendor must have an LRS to be conformant. These are all points you want to take into consideration when moving platform vendors. Start by having conversations with your current platform and technology vendors. Customers aren’t leveraging xAPI and cmi5 because their technology vendors don’t support it.

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#DevLearn retrospective: Start dreaming about the future of eLearning

Challenge to Learn

So they created the techniques in order to be able to create the movies. Thanks to the TinCan API (now renamed into ‘experience API’) the technique is ahead of us (learning developers and vendors). It will be a mutual challenge for the people who are developing this standard, for vendors and for eLearning developers.

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Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing

Tony Karrer

The TTS vendors learned two things from the voice-talent pricing model: The price level – Because of their perceived lower voice quality, TTS voices need to be priced much lower than their real counterparts to be an attractive alternative The TTS voice price need to be fixed according to the value of its use to the customer.