xAPI Intro for Instructional Designers Learning While Working 2019
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This document provides an introduction to xAPI (Experience API) for instructional designers. It defines xAPI as a specification for sending, storing, and retrieving data about learning experiences. The document discusses how xAPI works and how it is an improvement over SCORM. It provides examples of xAPI statements and describes how learning data can be used. It also offers guidance on getting started with xAPI, including ways to send data and where to store it in a learning record store. The document aims to help instructional designers understand and implement xAPI for tracking learning activities.
xAPI Intro for Instructional Designers Learning While Working 2019
- 1. xAPI: An Intro for Instructional Designers Megan Torrance | mtorrance@torrancelearning.com LWW 2019 iStock_000015727078
- 2. Megan Torrance mtorrance@torrancelearning.com @MMTorrance | @xAPIGnome | @Tlearning
- 4. As an instructional designer … What is xAPI? How do I send data? What data should I send? Where do I send it? How do I learn more?
- 5. xAPI is … X = experience API = application programming interface Specification for sending, storing, retrieving activity about learning and performance experiences Not so much “next generation SCORM” as it is “what will replace SCORM.” Experience API is … Tin Can API is …
- 6. SCORM Time Score Location Status Answers Actor verb object Actor verb object result context xAPI lego.com
- 7. Learning Record Provider Content Activity Statements & Profiles Learning Record Store You Other & Legacy data Adobe Stock 158410923
- 8. Actor verb object Actor verb object result context Claire read Business Writing for ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes Lindsey watched the Company History video Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
- 9. Mohammed published a blog post titled “10 Ways xAPI is better than SCORM” Oron rated event xAPI for Instructional Designers 5 stars “coffee rocked, nice use of PowerPoint” with @MMTorrance Cynthia sold premium synthetic oil Ladan simulated landing at DTW successfully Arthi simulated landing at DTW successfully with a score of 98% in SimSuite #4 by Instructor Tim Claire read Business Writing for ProfessionalsJohn practiced frosting birthday cakes Lindsey watched the Company History video Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling Cynthia completed Oil Change Upselling score 60% Actor verb object result context
- 10. What can you do with xAPI? • Learn more about the learning experience – not just elearning • Learn more about the performance • Correlate learning with performance • Offer more targeted training • Support performance in better ways • Use data to learn with others • Connect data across different learning experiences • Compare performance and learning across learners • Deliver and track training outside of the LMS • Track offline training
- 11. Getting Started Adobe Stock 79551218
- 12. 5 ways to send the data 1. Use your current elearning authoring tools 2. Get your product vendor to send the data 3. Use aggregator like xapiapps to assemble things that aren’t xAPI into a thing that is 4. Write some custom code 5. Import from business data
- 13. AUTHORING TOOLS Out of the box: • SCORM-like transactions • Individual page views • Actions and triggers (depends) With a little JavaScript or with xapi.ly: • Any action or trigger you want Bonus: use both xAPI and SCORM THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 19. OTHER ACTIVITY PROVIDERS Not really “authoring tools,” but very deep learning experiences, LXPs, LMCSes, etc. that send xAPI data. THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 20. Tools that originate outside of the L&D space are starting to adopt xAPI … because someone asked! THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING
- 21. The 70/20/10 Learning from Others Learning from ExperienceFormal Learning We are here now
- 22. Got it. So where does the data go?
- 23. The Learning Record Store … receives, stores, gives back xAPI data … can be tested for conformance which ensures interoperability (https://adopters.adlnet.gov/) … is not a learning management system (LMS)
- 24. 3 ½ ways to receive data: the Learning Record Store 1. Your LMS has an LRS inside it. Your LMS has a conformant LRS inside it. 2. You send data to an LRS separate from an LMS. 3. You build your own LRS (the code is open source).
- 25. A typical LMS today (and who has just one?!?!) Users Course s Enrollments SCOR M Data Reporting Courses Classe s Certs Badges SocialLearning Messaging Performance,Talenthooks Reporting Game s Sims Perf Supp Dash boards eCommerce Import/Export to Biz Data
- 26. The integrated approach Users Course s Enrollments SCOR M Data Reporting Courses Classe s Certs Badges SocialLearning Messaging Performance,Talenthooks Reporting Game s Sims Perf Supp Dash boards eCommerce Import/Export to Biz Data LRS SCOR M data
- 28. The sidecar approach Users Course s Enrollments SCOR M Data Reporting Courses Classe s Certs Badges SocialLearning Messaging Performance,Talenthooks Reporting Game s Sims Perf Supp Dash boards eCommerce Import/Export to Biz Data Learning Record Provider Learning Record Provider LRS
- 31. LEARNING RECORD STORES Out of the box: • Data storage & retrieval • Visualizations & reporting Connecting to analytics • Tableau, Microsoft BI, Envision BI, etc. UP TO DATE LIST OF CONFORMANT LRS: https://adopters.adlnet.gov/ THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING 31
- 32. LMSes WITH LRS INSIDE Out of the box: • Learning management functions • SCORM & AICC • Full xAPI LRS • Data includes both LMS & xAPI UP TO DATE LIST OF CONFORMANT LRS: https://adopters.adlnet.gov/ THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING LearnShare 32
- 33. LMSes WITH “xAPI SUPPORT” These are non-conformant LRSes. Out of the box: • Learning management functions • SCORM & AICC • Launch &/or store xAPI They may struggle with: • Accepting statements from outside the LMS • Reporting data in extensions THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING 33
- 34. LMSes THAT CONNECT TO YOUR LRS These systems are learning record providers. What you can expect: • xAPI statements from courses & experiences • Non-SCORM LMS activity, too • To buy an LRS also THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE THIS LIST IS GROWING 34
- 36. What can you do with the data? Evaluate & improve the learning experience Dashboards and visualizations for decision- making Personalization of pathways Recommendations for content Action triggers & rules
- 37. Take 2 aspirin… Adobe Stock 63038227
- 38. FORMING STORMING NORMING PERFORMING xAPI needs geeks Geek-free tools emerge Communities of Practice work to define usage Conformance & Certification emerge Project Tin Can Specification Standard More common than SCORM Is xAPI ready for prime time?
- 39. Get started! xapicohort.com Free 12-week, vendor-neutral learning-by-doing-in-teams experience. Weekly web meetings 2-3pm ET (recorded). Winter/Spring & Fall Ad hoc teams form to tackle a project together and provide weekly report- outs.
- 40. Megan Torrance mtorrance@torrancelearning.com @MMTorrance | @xAPIGnome | @Tlearning Questions & Thoughts? 40
Editor's Notes
- #4: Fitbit: www.fitbit.com Google: www.megalytics.com Jumpforward: www.jumpforward.com
- #6: xAPI is … X = experience API = application programming interface Specification for sending, storing, retrieving activity Some say that xAPI is next gen SCORM Like my smart phone SCORM only tracks 5 boring things
- #8: There are three “parts” to xAPI: The Learning Record Provider, the Activity Statement and the Learning Record Store. The Learning Record Provider is what’s sending the data – if it’s an elearning situation, then the activity provider is the course. You are the one doing the thinking here. The content is what you’re talking about. Again, if we’re talking about elearning, the content is … your content. The Activyt Statement is the format with which we’re sending the data. To be honest, the funnel doesn’t really hold up well as a metaphor. And we’re pouring all these statements into a Learning Record Store, which is a database that stores it all. At some point it may or may not have to mix in with some legacy content and data in order to make sense.
- #9: The pattern is that there’s an Actor, a verb, and an object. We can also add context about any of the items – actor, verb, or object
- #11: “X” for Experience, not LAPI – “learning” … track all sorts of things. And here’s the thing: you can do all of these things without xAPI. You just build them yourself. The technology is there – actually, its existed for years and some of you are already doing this. When you do these things with xAPI you are using an interoperable platform for communication – you can add and change pieces, vendors, platforms with far greater ease.
- #12: HOW TO GET STARTED Pick a first project Platform & tools you’ll need to get started What I’ve learned in working with vendors & partners
- #14: Out of the box, you can expect data that’s a lot like SCORM, plus individual page views, question answers and a few other things you couldn’t get with SCORM. dominKnow and Lectora support a wider variety of statements based on actions and triggers. All of these tools you can add custom JavaScript to action triggers and send statements to the LRS. ADD SLIDE: For example, our project with University of North Carolina – see us at DemoFest – where we have custom JS added to all sorts of actions in a Storyline course – question sets individually and totals, downloading resources, entering text on screen.
- #22: Similarly the 70/20/10 model.
- #26: With the integrated approach, a single platform does all the things, including both SCORM and xAPI. It’s all the things that you have come to expect from your LMS provider, with xAPI thrown in, too. One of Megan’s clients has a major integrated learning management system and that platform is adding xAPI support. This means that all the work they did in the last two years to select and implement a major piece of software doesn’t have to be undone, or they don’t have to start over in order to support xAPI projects they have waiting in the wings. Rob’s clients use xAPI-enabled training to train non-employees, where they access the training completely outside the LMS. The integrated LRS permits tracking of the training no matter if the user takes the course on the LMS as an employee, or on a website for business partners… it’s integrated and seamless from a reporting perspective.
- #27: With the integrated approach, a single platform does all the things, including both SCORM and xAPI. It’s all the things that you have come to expect from your LMS provider, with xAPI thrown in, too. One of Megan’s clients has a major integrated learning management system and that platform is adding xAPI support. This means that all the work they did in the last two years to select and implement a major piece of software doesn’t have to be undone, or they don’t have to start over in order to support xAPI projects they have waiting in the wings. Rob’s clients use xAPI-enabled training to train non-employees, where they access the training completely outside the LMS. The integrated LRS permits tracking of the training no matter if the user takes the course on the LMS as an employee, or on a website for business partners… it’s integrated and seamless from a reporting perspective.
- #28: The managed system approach usually puts the LRS at the center of a whole set of systems all talking together. The core system desired around and optimized for xAPI, that then lets you get best-of-breed tools to hook into it. Since you don’t have to be confined to just elearning courses in an LMS for tracking, you you’re tracking things that happen in the real world, and you’re able to go out and do all sorts of things outside your LMS and that pretty well rocks. One of Megan’s clients currently doesn’t have a strong LMS. In fact, their LMS is so “weak” within their organization that the L&D team is using a Wordpress site as a Content Management System from which to offer training – not a WordPress LMS, mind you. An internally hosted Wordpress site. They’re bringing on an LRS product that will be a hub for xAPI transactions from courses launched from the WordPress LMS. And as they bring on other xAPI conformant tools – right now we’re putting in a Curatr learning platform for a key customer group – all of that will feed back into the LRS.
- #29: The Sidecare LRS is a nice happy medium to get started.
- #32: Out of the box, you can expect data that’s a lot like SCORM, plus individual page views, question answers and a few other things you couldn’t get with SCORM. dominKnow and Lectora support a wider variety of statements based on actions and triggers. All of these tools you can add custom JavaScript to action triggers and send statements to the LRS. ADD SLIDE: For example, our project with University of North Carolina – see us at DemoFest – where we have custom JS added to all sorts of actions in a Storyline course – question sets individually and totals, downloading resources, entering text on screen.
- #38: That’s awesome, but what do I do next?
- #39: Wikipedia: Dr Bruce Tuckman published his Forming Storming Norming Performing model in 1965. He added a fifth stage, Adjourning, in the 1970s. The Forming Storming Norming Performing theory is an elegant and helpful explanation of team development and behaviour (US spelling: behavior).