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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

As Stephen Johnson tells us, in his book Where Good Ideas Come From , the openness of standards fosters innovation. . 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.

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What Is xAPI? Overview & Benefits of Experience API

WhatFix

Back to Blog Employee Training & Development What Is xAPI? the Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, aptly said, ‘xAPI is what helps us put the puzzle together’. What Is xAPI? xAPI stands for Experience API and is a cutting-edge eLearning standard format. How Does xAPI Work?

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Yet Analytics Awarded Contract to Bring Learning Experience Technology to Air Force

Yet Analytics

The effort is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory and has been facilitated by AFWERX, a United States Air Force program with the goal of fostering a culture of innovation within the service. “We Department of Defense.

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Ten Reasons We’re Excited About MedBiquitous 2017

Web Courseworks

Where else can you meet an MD who will hook you up to a stress detector that fires the data to a learning record store via xAPI in real time? MedBiquitous attendees are innovators meeting to swap ideas about how to do bleeding-edge things. Real xAPI work is presented at MedBiq. MedBiq’s format is innovative.

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Real (e)Learning Heroes

Clark Quinn

The Department of Defense’s ADL initiative decided upon a version, to move things forward, and thus was born SCORM. When standards are well-written, they support a basis upon which innovation can flourish. And if not, there’s always the ADL to wield the ‘800 lb gorilla’ argument. Standards are good.

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SCORM vs. Tin Can xAPI: A simple guide to everything you need to know

Plume - e-learning & learning management systems

What is xAPI? Unlike SCORM, xAPI isn’t limited to learning management systems. Differences between SCORM and xAPI. While xAPI is able to innovate and adapt, taking advantage of new software and features, SCORM is limited in what it can do in order to remain compatible with such an early version.

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iFEST has gone virtual and we’ll be ‘there’

Rustici Software

Hosted by ADL and NTSA , iFEST is a great conference that brings together people from the military, government, academic and industry sectors to discuss ways to evolve the distributed learning and training landscape. As an added bonus, iFEST will be using xAPI to track attendee engagement and populate leaderboards.

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