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xAPI Camp - Learning Solutions is Made Possible By Partnering Organizations
With Generous Support From
How xAPI Camp Works
• The Conversations You Need to Have
• Structured and Emergent
• “Yes-And”
• The Law of Two Feet
The Schedule• 8:30-9:15am Opening Remarks (Aaron Silvers)
• 9:15-10:00am Campfires (Rob Houck, Janet Laane Effron)
• 10:00-10:15am Break
• 10:15-noon Breakout Sessions
• Noon-1:00pm Lunch
• 1-1:45pm State of the State: Authoring Tools (Sean Putman)
• 1:45-2:30pm Campfires (Robert Gadd, Nick Washburn)
• 2:30-2:45pm Break
• 2:45-4pm Breakouts
• 4-4:30pm Wrap Up and Closing
The Experience API (xAPI)• Can track many different types of experiences — including things that
people do on the web, in mobile applications, with wearables, in classrooms and in workplace environments
• Moves beyond a web-based, didactic model
• Promotes better design and technology practices
• Makes integration with other systems and practices easier
• Provides a way to gather and use more useful information.
It answers a lot of ‘How’ type questions…
• How can I inform better business decisions?
• How do I avoid locking us into a solution?
• How can I make investments in learning development last longer and more future-proof?
• How can I make sure what I evaluate today is useful in the future?
• How will I connect a learner’s activities across multiple applications?
How Does Experience API Work?
• People interact with “stuff” (i.e. content, apps, business systems, etc.)
• These interactions are observed and described in JSON.
• The “stuff” sends the statements to a Learning Record Store.
What is a Learning Record Store, or LRS?
• It’s a database that stores activity statements - the “data”
• LRSs can be software (even hardware) that stands on its own.
• LRSs can be a part of data appliances, enterprise applications and learning management system (LMS)
User Management Learning Records Scheduling
Course Management Statistics Grade Book
Tracking eLearning Content Storage Search
Assignments Sequencing Delivery
Preferences Reports Assessment
Someone Did Something
Activity Statements are “Observations”
Actor Verb Object
(To Someone) (Using Stuff) (With Some Result)
{ "actor": { "mbox": "mailto:n3ed8rw7r39@adlnet.gov", "name": "n3ed8rw7r39@adlnet.gov", "objectType": "Agent" }, "verb": { "id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/passed", "display": { "en-US": "passed" } }, "object": { "id": "http://z2.vc/xapi/activities/passed", "objectType": "Activity", "definition": { "name": { "en-US": "HTML5 data attribute prototype" }, "description": { "en-US": "Example generation of a passed activity using an HTML5 data attribute with unobtrusive js" } } }, "id": "d3574611-8092-4616-bfdc-4f48933a0d42" }
Adaptive Learning assesses someone’s current knowledge state and recommends a sequence of activity that moves that knowledge state toward a
defined learning outcome.
CMI5 is a profile of xAPI that defines “plug-and-play” interoperability between
learning content activities and LMSs.
Sometimes a profile is called a recipe. When followed, it ensures consistent data to describe similar activities can be generated by different
activity providers.
Interoperability is the expectation that what works in one system will work in a set of other systems by
default with no configuration necessary.
For xAPI, interoperability means that data created in one system can be shared with appropriate
security and used by other systems with complete integrity and authority.
An activity provider is some form of content, software application or other media that creates activity statements that can be sent to an LRS.
Typical xAPI Projects• Data Strategy
• Content Strategy
• Learning Architecture
• Systems Integration
• Reporting
• Experience Design
Mindsets
Systems Thinking Integration Facilitation
A Maker Mindset Assume you have permission to tinker
Make, maintain and grow useful connections
Surface goals big & inviting enough to motivate action
Be The Change Interrogate perceived boundary conditions
Identify new paradigms supported by both sides of
double-binds
Inspire others, modeling how to navigate through shifting
paradigms
“Yes. And..” Augment rather than change discrete systems
Seek connections and overlaps that add value beyond the immediate
context
Help others avoid negation
Who puts xAPI solutions together?
Technology Partners Vendors, consultants, tool providers, etc.
Your Team Stakeholders, team members, customers.
How xAPI solutions happen…
• Use a tool that is built with xAPI, natively, from the ground-up ( “Native” )
• Leverage an existing data source that is modified, extended or translated into xAPI ( “Modified” )
• Build Your Own ( “BYO” )
Native Modified BYO
Technology Partners
xAPI from ground-up
APIs or other data sources
that can translate to xAPI
Whatever You Want
Your Team
Balancing wants, needs
and sustainability
Creating & maintaining middleware
Practices, Resourcing &
Scaling
Native Modified BYO
Technology Partners
xAPI from ground-up
APIs or other data sources
that can translate to xAPI
Whatever You Want
Your Team
Balancing wants, needs
and sustainability
Creating & maintaining middleware
Practices, Resourcing &
Scaling
Questions for technology partners
If there’s support for xAPI from the ground-up…
• What activities are designed?
Common Needs
Social Custom mobile applications Play existing courses Create new courses
Track/report progressOff-the-shelf applications
integrationTesting Competency management
See the learner’s journey See content usage Work activities Sensors
Simulations Recruitment Compliance activity Reporting
Questions for technology partners
If there’s support for xAPI from the ground-up…
• What activities are designed?
• How are activities tracked?
Questions for technology partners
If there’s support for xAPI from the ground-up…
• What activities are designed?
• How are activities tracked?
• What data points are in each statement?
Questions for technology partners
If there’s support for xAPI from the ground-up…
• What activities are designed?
• How are activities tracked?
• What data points are in each statement?
• How do I input or change endpoint credentials?
Prompt Hack Fixed
You’ll have a prompt to input one or multiple LRS endpoint credentials.
As an example, while there’s a default configuration, there’s JavaScript or other code as an interface that can be amended with knowledge of how the technology works.
The technology is in a published or executable-only state (a .exe file, a .swf file — something server side) that makes it difficult if not impossible to change.
Questions for technology partners
If there’s support for xAPI from the ground-up…
• What activities are designed?
• How are activities tracked?
• What data points are in each statement?
• How do I input or change endpoint credentials?
• How does it rely on the LMS or other software applications?
Native Modified BYO
Technology Partners
xAPI from ground-up
APIs or other data sources
that can translate to xAPI
Whatever You Want
Your Team
Balancing wants, needs
and sustainability
Creating & maintaining middleware
Practices, Resourcing &
Scaling
Questions for your team
If considering a tool built with xAPI from the ground-up…
• Is what’s baked-in going to be enough?
• Does the right data align across tools?
• If not… can we support our own unbiased reporting, knowing the caveats?
Native Modified BYO
Technology Partners
xAPI from ground-up
APIs or other data sources
that can translate to
xAPI
Whatever You Want
Your Team
Balancing wants, needs
and sustainability
Creating & maintaining middleware
Practices, Resourcing &
Scaling
Questions for technology partnersIf there’s support for APIs or other data sources that can translate to xAPI…
• What APIs does the technology offer?
• Of these…Can we capture the right activities?
• What data will fill in the gaps in information we need?
Native Modified BYO
Technology Partners
xAPI from ground-up
APIs or other data sources
that can translate to xAPI
Whatever You Want
Your Team
Balancing wants, needs
and sustainability
Creating & maintaining middleware
Practices, Resourcing &
Scaling
Questions for your teamIf considering a tool built for APIs or other data sources that can translate to xAPI…
• Can we get enough from this/these APIs?
• How much value will we get from this system?
• What resources will we have…
• to do custom API development?
• to keep up our code with the different specs, ongoing?
• to build the translation layer?
Native Modified BYO
Technology Partners
xAPI from ground-up
APIs or other data sources
that can translate to xAPI
Whatever You Want
Your Team
Balancing wants, needs
and sustainability
Creating & maintaining middleware
Practices, Resourcing &
Scaling
Questions for technology partners
If your technology partner will build whatever you want…
• What learning experience are you designing?
• What interactions are needed to support the learning experience design?
Native Modified BYO
Technology Partners
xAPI from ground-up
APIs or other data sources
that can translate to
xAPI
Whatever You Want
Your Team
Balancing wants, needs
and sustainability
Creating & maintaining middleware
Practices, Resourcing &
Scaling
Questions for your teamIf you can build whatever you want…
• What learning experience are you designing?
• What interactions are needed to support the learning experience design?
• What interactions are needed but don’t evidence or disprove the learning experience?
• What recipes exist?
• What is the data model and information architecture it should conform with?
• What is our ability to support this at scale?
When considering technology partners…
• Consider the know-how and investment of those who contribute to the actual spec(example: https://github.com/adlnet/xAPI-Spec/graphs/contributors)
• Consider those who can demonstrate xAPI interoperability(example: http://tincanapi.com/2015/04/16/tale-three-lrss/)
• Consider those who stay current with the spec(example: https://github.com/aaronesilvers/IEEE/blob/master/2014_State_of_xAPI_Tools_Survey_Responses.csv)
• Consider those who won’t lock you into one size fits all(example: http://connectionsforum.com/case-studies/)
The Data Interoperability Standards Consortium (Data Interoperability) is the international, nonprofit organization that
will handle the operations and maintenance of xAPI into perpetuity.
Board of Directors
Megan Bowe
KirstyKitto
EricNehrlich
BrendaSanderson
AaronSilvers
Robert Todd
MakingBetterQueenslandUniveristy
Google IxDA MakingBetterLearningInvention
In 2016, Data Interoperability will address...
Vocabulary Profiles Partnerships Certification Stewardship
• Federated registry and associated APIs, freely available for individuals; fee-based for products
• Maintained and managed
• Schema to validate profiles
• Recognize and document community-of-practice activities, normalizing profiles by domain (vs
• Relationships with stakeholder groups wanting to leverage xAPI in their own specs
• Supporting interests beyond just US DoD
• Identifies software and hardware that conforms to requirements of the xAPI specification
• Guarantees xAPI’s value proposition
• Supports xAPI’s relevancy to market needs
• Provides resources and vehicles to support xAPI adoption
RENEWCERTIFICATION
Concept: Certification
APPLICATIONIMPLEMENTINDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE
Vendor is interested in offering a product or service
using xAPI.
Vendor makes contact
with DISC with
request for
information.
Vendor develops
xAPI functionality in their product or
service.
Vendor applies for certification testing of their
product or service.
Vendor successfully earns a
digital badge
certifying product
authentically.
Vendor renews
certification to keep
current with any changes to xAPI.
Workstreams
INFORMATION CERTIFICATION SPECIFICATION COMMUNICATION
Federated Registry
Index of Certified Products
Maintaining Requirements
Third-Party Testing
ProgramMaintenance
Strategic Evolution
Communities of Practice
Working Groups
June 2017 January 2017September
2016January 2017 March 2016 June 2016 March 2016 March 2016
Supporting Vendors Informing Customers Delivering Market Relevance Engaging Contributors
Janet Laane Effron
• Data Scientist, HT2
• Lessons LearnedDATA RULES: UNMEASURED LEARNING’S DAY OFF
• http://investigating-performance-0.launchrock.com
Sean Putman
• Vice President of Learning Development, Altair Engineering
• Best PracticesState of the State: Authoring Tools