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The Experience API (xAPI) - Learning
Can Happen Everywhere.
Let's start here.
Presented by Mzinga, Inc.
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Being social is about interacting & engaging each other & sharing ideas… so the best way to experience it, is to just jump in and do it!
Feel free to tweet about our discussion (#mzinga). We will also be continuing the discussion on Twitter after our webinar for 30 minutes.
Join the chat. If you have any advance questions during the presentation, just add them into the chat now and we’ll address them at the end of the session
We also know some of you will prefer to just listen; that’s cool too
After the event, the
following materials will
be made available to all
of you:
• Presentation slides
• Webinar recording
Session Follow-up
A Few Housekeeping Items…
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Agenda
About Mzinga
Why should you care about a new learning standard?
What is the Experience API (xAPI)?
What is Mzinga going to do with it?
Demonstration
Q&A
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About The Presenters
Tamie Johnson
• Vice President of Social Learning
Danielle Tully
• Senior Software Architect
Casey Singer
• Senior Technical Solutions Engineer
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Who is Mzinga?
Technology & Services
Robust social software technology suite
SaaS deployment
Scalable solution platform with flexible deployment options
Strategic consulting, learning & moderation services
Broadest Solution Set
Targeted social software solutions for:
• Marketing
• Employee collaboration & training
• Customer engagement & training
• Customer support
Company Headquartered in Burlington, MA
100 employees including network of 50 multilingual social media professionals
Experience Service millions of users across hundreds of leading brands worldwide
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What is OmniSocial Learning?
A flexible and SaaS
based social learning
platform, that can be
implemented quickly,
easily and deployed in
multiple ways, to help
organizations perform
and excel through
Customer and
Employee focus.
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Why should you care?
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What is the Experience API (xAPI, TinCan
API)? What It is not!
What xAPI is:• Standard developed by
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
• The next version of SCORM –data standard for reporting learning activities
What xAPI is not:• A complete replacement for
SCORM
• Content Authoring
• Content Delivery
• Replacement for LMS
• Application
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What else is needed?
Learning Record Store
• Database designed to store xAPI statements
• Central repository to track informal learning activities
• Standalone or seamlessly built into an LMS
Wrapped Content that you want to track
• Videos
• Documents
• Collaboration
• Life Events
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From the ADL (Advanced Distributed
Learning):
Component of the Training and Learning Architecture (TLA)
Purpose is to store and provide access to learning experiences
Enables tracking of traditional records, such as scores and completions
Stores records of learners’ actions, such as reading an article or watching a training video.
Designed to provide tracking of activity, content, and training outside of a web browser
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Lets get into
the meat
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Sample xAPI statements
Informal LearningTamie favorited “The Experience API (xAPI): Learning Can Happen Everywhere” on Twitter
Casey watched “Setting up a Learning Record Store” on YouTube with Tamie
Personalized LearningTamie completed “Advanced Leadership” with result 89% on Mzinga LMS
Casey answered “Question 1” on Intro to LRS training course with a result of 100%
Performance TrackingMike closed a deal with ABC Company
for $5,000
Nancy completed a “Project 15” with
ABC Company in 3 days
Analysis & Visualization
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Sample xAPI code
Casey Singer attended the “xAPI Presentation”
{
"actor": {
"name": "Casey Singer",
"mbox": "[email protected]"
},
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/attended",
"display": {
"en-US": "attended"
},
"object": {
"id": "http://mzinga.com/xAPI_Presentation",
"definition": {
"name": { "en-US": "xAPI Presentation" }
}
}
}
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How will Mzinga use it? Phase 1
LRSLearners Launch Content from multiple devices
The LMS provides the content with location of the LRS (endpoint)
The content requests and sends data to the LRSThe LMS and LRS
communicate to show learner history and activities.
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How will Mzinga use it? Phase 2
LRSLearners Launch Content from multiple devices
The LMS provides the content with location of the LRS (endpoint)
The content requests and sends data to the LRS
The LMS and LRS communicate to show learner history and activities.
Consistent Integrations with 3rd
Party ToolsAdditional API’s
Additional Reporting/Syncing
LRS Utilities
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LMS Integration with xAPI
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Mzinga Learning Record Store
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Future of the LRS/xAPI integration
LRS
LRS LRSLRS
User
LMS
Web Content Games
Social
Dashboards
Everyday Life Experiences
Imagine
3rd Party Content
Real World Learning External Applications & LMS’s
External Events
Books
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Q&A
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Thank you!
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