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An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI

eLearningMind

To enable you to take full advantage of learning technology, this Ultimate Guide to xAPI provides you with everything you need to know. While the same government overseer—Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)—played a pivotal role in creating both standards, the two aren’t the same. What is xAPI (Tin Can API)? The result was SCORM 2.0.

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Tin Can API: What It Has in Store for Online Learning Environments

ProProfs

In technology, whatever can be done will be done – Andrew S. This method is not conducive to the holistic development of learners as it doesn’t show the whole picture of the learning activity. It was done as a part of a research project commissioned by The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. xAPI vs SCORM.

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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). The point is that you map the technology to the need, and infer the possibilities. Or find someone that you should meet because you’re nearby.

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Is it time to replace SCORM? A Look at Emerging Learning Technologies

Growth Engineering

Is it finally time for SCORM, the specification superstar of the noughties, to move over for modern learning technology? SCORM won the hearts of L&D folk everywhere, when it was invented by the ADL in 2000. SCORM solved this headache by providing a standard software specification that worked across all learning technology.

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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. LRS data can be easily shared.

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SCORM Compliance and Tin Can Api

Paradiso

SCORM was originally developed way back in the 90s by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), an initiative of the U.S. This data is clearly of great import to trainers as it provides them with a more robust and accurate picture of the progress being made outside of formal learning. Department of Defence. Quantifiable data.

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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?