the impacts of the tin can api: how 8 companies are using the tin can api (xapi)
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Luminosity and Tin CanAlex Mackman
Technical Director, CM Group
@alexatcmgroup
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/alexmackman
© CM Group 2015
• Tin Can is a technology for a mobile, disconnected world• Its emergence coincided with us building a mobile first, cloud-based learning
management system
• It simplified our development• We no longer had to battle to make SCORM work in scenarios it was ill suited
for e.g. mobile, disconnected scenarios
• It enabled us to track everything!• Content access (inside and outside of our platform)
• Experiences (inside and outside of our platform)
• It facilitated a number of other core platform features• E.g. Gamification engine, improved reporting and analytics
Why did we adopt Tin Can?
© CM Group 2015
Product support• Luminosity LMS
True cloud LMS with integrated LRS
• Tin Can drives reports and gamification
• Luminosity StudioRapid HTML authoring
• Luminosity MentorNative Apps for iOS, Android and Windows
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Business ImpactReduced training costs
Quicker time to productivity for new managers
Increased HR | new manager engagement
Quicker time to productivity for new starters
Driving sales of NowTV packages with reseller education
Mobile enabled compliance training
KNOWLEDGE GURU Platform for building serious games.
Uses science of learning and remembering
to increase retention.
Fast and efficient to produce.
No game design knowledge required.
What is Knowledge Guru?
Why xAPI?
Knowledge Guru capable of tracking highly granular data
Robust native reporting
Wanted to provide LMS tracking while preserving cloud-based play, leaderboards, game elements, etc.
Some organizations need all learning experiences tracked in one location.
Wanted to see performance challenges recorded in LMS.
How does xAPI Work in Knowledge
Guru?
Input LRS settings in admin dashboard
Game data flows to LRS
Admin uses native Guru reports alongside data visualizations in LRS.
Additional data export possible via CSV
What Can We Do Now, Thanks to
xAPI?
Organizations can offer full gameplay experience (leaderboards, mobile, etc) and still track data in LRS/LMS.
Customers can use native Guru reports AND store data in their LRS/LMS.
We can show “proof of concept” of xAPI to show customers what’s possible.
Game content, reports can change on the fly.
A configurable platform of learning services
Nick WashburnDirector, Learning DivisionRiptide Software, Inc.
Riptide Software, Inc.• Founded in 1995
• CMMI Level 4 – Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
• Small business, custom software developer, serving Government and Commercial
• 2013 & 2014 MT2 Top Simulation and Training Technology Companies
Why did we adopt xAPI?
• Participants in xAPI workgroup
• New product development effort that aligns with vision of ADL (xAPI/Tin Can)
How does xAPI work in our product?
• Courseware / LRS
• Edit / Configure / Authoring
• Learning Content Management
• Curriculum Management
• Reporting and Analytics
• Integration to other services
Data Mining Live Training Ranges• ADL BAA – 2013 White
Paper• A uniform mechanism for
collecting the available data from live ranges using xAPI/LRS
Proof of Principle at U.S. Army Oscar 9 Range located at Ft Benning, GA
• Get range reporting xAPI• Provide meaningful feedback
and corrective training to the
Overview of Features•Live Training Range reporting results via xAPI/LRS
– Experience Application Programming Interface (xAPI)
– Learning Record Store (LRS)
• Corrective Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI) delivered to Shooter
– xAPI reporting of corrective IMI
•BRM10 data automated to DTMS
– Digital Training Management System
– Basic Rifle Marksmanship (BRM)
•Range data made available to Training Community
– IMI training data made available
Contact:Nick WashburnDirector, Learning [email protected]: 407-542-7684Riptide Software, Inc.200 East Palm Valley DriveOviedo, FL 32765
© 2014 RISC, Inc. Reproduction prohibited without permission.
Why Tin Can / xAPI?
• Large training manuals handed out on USB
• Need for students to Mark-Up documents
• Large, existing PDF library
• Pie-in-the-sky Goal: Track annotations
made
RISC was approached by customer with these issues:
© 2014 RISC, Inc. Reproduction prohibited without permission.
How does it work?
• Worked with Float Mobile to develop the PDF
Annotator and integrate with the RISC LMS.
• Annotations stored in the cloud
• Documents stored in the cloud
• Both browser and iPad version
• LRS provides reporting
© 2014 RISC, Inc. Reproduction prohibited without permission.
Business Impact
• Tracking annotations in the LRS allows:
– Determine which pages / phrases receive most
annotation
– See reader comments
– Find out documents are accessed most
• This data is used to improve training materials
How does Tin Can API work in TES?
TES Observation
Checklist
TES Evidence
Stream
Tin Can / xAPI
Statement
{ Emily Completed Observation Checklist }
Exhibit Screen
Badge IDs Content
Report Data
Teacher Dashboard
LRS
Beacon
Exhibit
PHASE n
& Staff
Real world experiences
An agile, visual authoring system for creating eLearning, mLearningand serious learning gamesOptimally designed for learning professionals who want to create authentic learning events, with real-world consequencesYet easy enough to create simple performance support apps
Apps export to:
• SCORM & AICC packages• Http embeddable apps• Local apps• Native iOS and Android Apps• Social MediaAll are capable of executing xAPI Statements
Interactive Badges: R&DBadge is a ZebraZapps app
• Personalized via Set and Get State• Content admin with Wordpress• Compatible with Mozilla Open Badge
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Key Takeaways
• Mobile first LMS platform
• See learning from in and out of the LMS in one
place
• Gamification powered by Tin Can statements
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Key Takeaways
• Cloud-based game delivery AND LMS integration
• Additional tracking features such as leader board
• Content can change on the fly
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Key Takeaways
• Capturing actual soldiers with real guns
• Intelligent tutoring recognizes causes behind
incorrect shot patterns
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Key Takeaways
• A pioneering LMS provider embracing the new
model
• Annotate PDF documents and analyze the results
• Protecting content
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Key Takeaways
• Performance observation, attendance tracking, face-to-
face mentoring
• Big pieces of the ecosystem assembled via best-of-
breed technologies
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Key Takeaways
• Capture and harness informal learning
• Social, coaching and curation
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Key Takeaways
• RFIDs and Beacons
• Making the museum come alive
• Providing feedback to teachers
• Valuable even in a closed environment
• Amazing results on a shoestring budget
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Key Takeaways
• Intuitive visual authoring for serious games
• Export to any platform
• Lots of control over what is reported via statements
• R&D project creates interactive Mozilla badges
powered by Tin Can
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