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Getting contextual

Clark Quinn

For the current ADL webinar series on mobile, I gave a presentation on contextualizing mobile in the larger picture of L&D (a natural extension of my most recent books). That we should be creating them by abstracting from successful practices, we should be conceptualizing them, or adopting them from other areas.

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Tin Can API, the evolution of SCORM

Paradiso

Originally developed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), an initiative of the Unite States Department of Defense, SCORM was designed to standardize and modernize their training courses. All of this adds up to give a much clearer and deeper overall picture of a learner’s progress. Learning can be tracked both on and offline.

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What Is xAPI? Overview & Benefits of Experience API

WhatFix

These must be meticulously identified and linked to translate into the entire learning picture. the Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, aptly said, ‘xAPI is what helps us put the puzzle together’. And as Sae Schatz, Ph.D. , What Is xAPI? xAPI is a massive ‘upgrade’ to SCORM.

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Beginners Guide To Tin Can API

ProProfs

Before Tin Can, SCORM was the leading standard for web-based electronic educational technology (e-learning). Tin Can API was developed by Rustici Software when they were contracted by ADL, the keepers of SCORM, to come up with a new approach to learning systems and methodology. The History of Tin Can API. How Does Tin Can API Work?

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What is xAPI?

LearnUpon

The SCORM specification was introduced by ADL in 1999. Rustici chose the name project name “Tin Can” to describe the two-way conversations the technology would track as it made it easier for learning systems to communicate with each other. But what is xAPI? What is xAPI? xAPI is the result of that work. The limits of the xAPI.

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Standards and success

Clark Quinn

While IMS & IEEE held meetings to get learning content standards nailed down, ADL just put their foot down with SCORM (and US Defense is a big foot), and it pretty much got everyone’s attention. Until then, any investment has trouble being leveraged in a longer term picture, as the companies you go with may not survive!

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What is Tin Can API?

LearnUpon

The SCORM specification was introduced by ADL in 1999. Rustici chose the name “Tin Can” to describe the two-way conversations the technology would track as it made it easier for learning systems to communicate with each other. And why do so many experts believe it will soon become the default standard for eLearning content? Here’s why.