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An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI

eLearningMind

It is software, or snippets of code, that enables the communication between two or more other pieces of software, systems, programs, or apps. The server takes your order and communicates it to the kitchen staff, who prepares your order and passes it back to the server, who then serves it to you. Social media? The answer?

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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough. The ADL provided compliance testing, so that content and systems could be validated for interoperability. ADL decided to create a new standard, the Experience API (xAPI; originally known as Tin Can). And because of the 800 lb.

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A SCORM-Certified LMS Helps Companies Score

TOPYX LMS

However, there is one thing that all social learning management systems should have in common: a SCORM certification. It was during that year when President Clinton signed an executive order that led to the creation of Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), the initiative that SCORM comes under. What Is SCORM? Have you heard of SCORM?

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e-Learning Glossaries

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 12/05/2010 e-Learning Glossaries Think about e-Learning. e-Learning applications and processes are constantly changing and evolving, and the e-Learning community has members all over the world.

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Tin Can vs. SCORM: What’s It All About?

KZO Innovations

Specifically, SCORM governs how online learning content and Learning Management Systems (LMSs) communicate with each other. Both SCORM and the Tin Can API were developed by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), a research group sponsored by the DoD, with help from Rustici Software. What is Tin Can? What Are the Differences?

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Beginners Guide To Tin Can API

ProProfs

The API allows this communication even if the applications were developed independent to each other, by different people or for different devices. 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.

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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. We can now learn anywhere: while travelling to work, doing our jobs, or socializing with friends.

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