As you build your xAPI ecosystem, you’ll likely compile a number of LRSs. Developing a strategy for moving and receiving xAPI data between LRSs becomes essential, which is why our CEO TJ outlined tactical steps for doing just that during his recent xAPI Cohort presentation. He’s giving a talk on xAPI at DevLearn this Friday, “ xAPI 201: Move from Experimentation to Mastery.” ” Where does xAPI data come from? Send xAPI data. MORE

Deployment type – SaaS, Client-Hosted; if SaaS this means in the cloud, if Client-Hosted it means the system can sit behind your firewall on your servers. gomo learning – SaaS authoring tool which comes with analytical data. Personally, I never understood why an authoring tool needs analytical data, and the folks at gomo, know my feelings on this. or xAPI. . As a kid growing up, our house had a lot of pictures of clowns. MORE

Learning Analytics. Integration of mobile learning with e-learning, and with other emerging technologies such as Learning Analytics. Opening up of learning content that is presently locked up behind firewalls or LMSs to enable access to learners for just-in-time learning or performance support. More vendors, developers, and organizations embracing Tin Can in their learning designs, and extending its power to Talent Analytics and other broader parts of the enterprise. MORE

Learning Analytics. Integration of mobile learning with e-learning, and with other emerging technologies such as Learning Analytics. Opening up of learning content that is presently locked up behind firewalls or LMSs to enable access to learners for just-in-time learning or performance support. More vendors, developers, and organizations embracing Tin Can in their learning designs, and extending its power to Talent Analytics and other broader parts of the enterprise. MORE

Some of the older smartphones may not be able to smoothly process high data loads, and some deliverables may have to be accessed through the company’s firewall, which could cause problems for devices outside the organization. Obtaining relevant user analytics for mobile learning is no longer difficult. The new CMI-5 standard with xAPI allows us to launch and track content without necessarily using an LMS. Learning can happen anywhere, and xAPI lets us track it. MORE

My hope is that Tin Can will position the learning department as leaders in analytic thinking that will spread to broader parts of the enterprise, with Tin Can becoming just one piece of that larger puzzle.”We In many organizations, the courses are locked behind firewalls or LMSs and the learner has limited access to them.”. As this wonderful year comes to a close, we wish to take a look back at our little journey, which presented us with some great learnings about ‘learning’. MORE

Or should that be XAPI? Some argued “create Apps to get round the corporate firewall issues” others that Apps are less secure as the content resides on the device. This new set of standards set to replace SCORM has not even been published yet but already it has a shiny new name and a nickname, XAPI for short. XAPI is a standard for data transfer based on an Actor Verb Object syntax. As XAPI is taken up and evolves, so more verbs will be added. MORE

The parallel concept of Bring Your Own Content (BYOC) has also been suggested and, as mobile devices – smartphones and tablets – have circumvented corporate firewalls, the ability for learners to source, select and consume their own learning materials when and where they choose is becoming a reality. Analytics and learning record stores (LRS), along with the increasing influence of ‘big data’. ABOUT BOB LITTLE (Senior Partner, Bob Little Press & PR). MORE

” Well, my objectives with xAPI were the following: Enable data interoperability across systems. Looking at what Megan and I are implementing with xAPI, I have to call out where, in practice, the tools conforming to the spec aren’t helping with data ownership. To do this, people are designing patterns of interactions within (and across) content items to be tracked with xAPI. MORE

My hope is that Tin Can will position the learning department as leaders in analytic thinking that will spread to broader parts of the enterprise, with Tin Can becoming just one piece of that larger puzzle.”. ” “ Tin Can will position the learning department as leaders in analytic thinking that will spread to broader parts of the enterprise. ” “In many organizations, the courses are locked behind firewalls or LMSs and the learner has limited access to them.” MORE