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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. Before APIs became mainstream, learning solution developers used significant amounts of time and effort writing countless lines of code to perform even the simplest of tasks. The answer?

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xAPI: Why Should I Care and What Could It Do for Me?

Meridian

In the training world, we were introduced to SCORM from an initiative that arose in 1999, led by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). xAPI, like SCORM before it, started from a DoD and ADL 2011 initiative. Two years later, the xAPI 1.0 With xAPI, you can track virtually anything.

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xAPI: Why Should I Care and What Could It Do for Me?

Meridian

In the training world, we were introduced to SCORM from an initiative that arose in 1999, led by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). xAPI, like SCORM before it, started from a DoD and ADL 2011 initiative. Two years later, the xAPI 1.0 With xAPI, you can track virtually anything.

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What Is xAPI? Overview & Benefits of Experience API

WhatFix

This attempt to routinely piece together the individual’s ‘learning puzzle’ is key to a more intuitive and agile future of learning. 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?

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Learning Ecosystems: How to add data sources & iterate [Guide]

Watershed

In this instance, a data source is any system that generates or stores data about a learner’s interactions. This includes learning systems, operational systems, and performance-monitoring tools. For example, your learning ecosystem might include: an LMS, a Learning Experience Platform, external content providers, and/or.

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The What, How and Why of xAPI in Corporate Learning

WhatFix

who serves as the Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, aptly put it ‘xAPI helps us put the puzzle together’. This attempt to routinely piece together the individual’s ‘learning puzzle’ is key to a more intuitive and agile future of learning. As Sae Schatz, Ph.D. , Why Use xAPI?

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Tin Can API & the Future of E-Learning

Learnnovators

The backbone of this specification is a Learning Record Store (LRS) – a repository for storing the learning experiences (records). This standard is being developed by Rustici Software (with a world-wide active community participating and contributing) for Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) – the keepers of SCORM.