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SCORM Vs. xAPI (Tin Can): eLearning Content Standards

Academy of Mine

Both SCORM and xAPI are content standards used to create eLearning courses. Tin Can, otherwise known as xAPI, was developed in 2013 (over a decade after SCORM was released). After all, what’s the difference between SCORM and xAPI? And if you’re using SCORM, does it make sense to convert all of your eLearning to xAPI?

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The next chapter in Rustici Engine’s LRS xAPI performance

Rustici Software

Rustici Engine has supported xAPI (the Experience API) since 2011 when we created the initial version for ADL. The last big overhaul we made to xAPI data storage in Engine was in 2015. After almost 10 years since that overhaul, it was time for another big change that would ultimately come with some big challenges. It was time.

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eLearning Trends for 2018

Association eLearning

Like gamification, it will take some time for these technologies to change from novelty to must have. No, it isn’t, but it is changing. Speaking of flexibility, xAPI is an important part of that process. xAPI helps with integrations and reporting between various platforms. Gamification. Flexible LMS. The LMS is dead!

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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

eLearning 24-7

Fast forward to the early 2000s, and a US government-sponsored group, the ADL Initiative, took the best of AICC, added some much-needed changes, and SCORM 1.0 In the mid-2000s, software changed from versions to “years” in their naming convention, hence the “year” name. What does xAPI (course standard) mean when a vendor says it?

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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With xAPI, do I still need a Learning Management System?

Julian Davis

I’ve been asked this question many times as I spread the word on xAPI. An analogy that I was once given about xAPI is that it is a tool, just like an LMS is a tool. The older product still did the same thing so why change? It’s always been that way so why change? This in itself is a powerful feature of xAPI.

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Getting Started with xAPI

dominKnow

In the past decade probably no other new technology in the elearning space has offered more potential for changing how and what we can do for our organizations than the Experience API, or xAPI for short.

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