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Are you hearing buzz about the Tin Can API and wondering what it is and what it can do? Do you want to spread your wings and take advantage of modern technologies?
In this episode, Megan Bowe demystifies the Tin Can API (a.k.a. Experience API or xAPI) and discusses its potential for advancing the learning environment. Megan's knack for explaining the Experience API helped it become the most successful and most quickly adopted learning technology innovation in the last thirty years. She worked hand-in-hand with innovators and early adopters implementing the specification at Rustici Software, teaciing others and designing products, early content and application prototypes. In many ways, Megan invented much of what the emerging community of practice advocates around this learning technology. She continues the charge today at Making Better.
WE DISCUSS:
How SCORM started and it's limitations
What the xAPI offers to designers and learners
What an API is and what it does
The beauty of the Learning Record Store (LRS)
Systems that can create and use xAPI data
Using xAPI for tracking and sharing your own learning or for creating a portfolio
Innovating with Learning Locker
Use cases for xAPI (getting insights in so different ways)
How to combine Tin Can and Open Badges
The big picture view
Getting started with xAPI
TIME: 33 minutes
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RESOURCES:
Making Better (Megan's website)
xAPI Overview
IEEE Working Group on xAPI
Research Report: The Experience API
Learning Locker
Curatr
Rustici Software
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