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LS703The xAPI: What Does an Instructional
Designer Need to Know?
Megan Torrance, TorranceLearning
Orlando, FL • March 16 – 18, 2016
Life in a Post-SCORM WorldWhat Does an Instructional
Designer Need to Know?
mtorrance@torrancelearning.com@MMTorrance@xAPIGnome@Tlearning@MyEleventurelinkedin.com/in/megantorrance
Megan TorranceCEO, TorranceLearning
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Onboarding Plan BOnboarding Plan A
What is xAPI?
“x” = experience
“API” = application programming
interface
Simple, lightweight way to store
and retrieve records
What is xAPI?
Answer #1 Next-generation SCORM
Answer #2 A protocol for recording any learning experience to give a more rich picture of the development path.
Answer #3A protocol and language for sending and retrieving data about learning experiences: activity statements
Answer #4“the holy grail” where we can correlate job performance data with training data to assess people and training effectiveness
When we live in a SCORM world …
… we live in a box.
What is SCORM?
Time
Score
Location
Status
Answers
When we live in a SCORM world …
• We focus on the instruction & the
media in elearning.
• Developer tools do the heavy lifting for
SCORM.
• We don’t think much about data or
reporting.
• We may struggle to tie learning
“completions” to organization results.
We probably don’t track out-of-
LMS learning at depth or scale.
In an xAPI world …
• We focus on the instruction & the
media & the data in everything.
• There are few rich developer tools do
the heavy lifting for xAPI yet.
• We now get to think about data and
reporting.
• We can tie learning & behavior to
results if we do it right.
We can track out-of-LMS learning
at depth and scale.
We can tie behaviors & results to
learning.
So get comfortable with some of this …
What’s in an xAPI activity statement?
Claire read Business Writing for Professionals
John practiced frosting birthday cakes
Lindsey watched the Company History video
Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
Actor verb object
Actor verb object context
Mohammed wrote a blog post about local theatre that got 45 views and 3 comments
Oron rated ATD event Essentials of Creating Learning Experiences with xAPI @MMTorrance 4 stars “coffee rocked, nice use of WebEx”
Claire read Business Writing for Professionals
John practiced frosting birthday cakes
Lindsey watched the Company History video
Rashad completed Oil Change Upselling
Cynthia completed Oil Change Upselling score 60%
Ladan simulated landing at DTW
Arthi simulated landing at DTW in SimSuite #4 and was rated 98% by Instructor
Experiment with statements here
http://adlnet.github.io/xapi-lab/
So what should we track & Measure?
Stop thinking about your courses
Start thinking about your questions.
Start thinking about what data would
help you answer those questions.
You’re already using some ID concepts
and techniques that will lend themselves
well to an xAPI world …
!Design a solution to meet stated needs !
Respond to questions correctly
!Decide a course of action
!Collect & enter data accurately
!Nail roof shingles safely
Practice in Training
Know . . .
Business Goal that solves a
Business Problem
Adapted from: Cathy Moore
Cathy Moore’s Action Mapping
Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Training Evaluation
Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 / 4 Level 4 / 5
Behaviors
!
Practice & Testing
Knowledge & Retention
Results & ROI
Level 1
Satisfaction & Experience
SCORM
xAPI
The 70/20/10
People ExperienceFormal
SCORM
xAPI
Conrad gottfredson & bob mosher’s5 (9) Moments of Learning Need
5 Moments of Learning Need: Gottfredson & Mosher http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/949/9 Moments of Need: Torrance https://www.td.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2014/09/Nine-Moments-of-Learning
Apply
New
More
Solve
Change
SCO
RM
xAP
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SCO
RM
BeforePrepare
Remember
Teach
An Experience Learning Model
Experience
Debrief
Reflection
Action Planning
What
What happened?
So what?
Now what?
What can you do now that you have xAPI?
• Learn more about the learning
experience
• Learn more about the performance
• Correlate learning with performance
• Correlate learning with results
• Correlate performance with results
• Offer more targeted training
• Support performance in better ways
• Learn from others
• Share learning with others
• Compare performance and learning
across learners
• Deliver and track training outside of
the LMS
What’s being done with xAPI now?
A lot of tools-based projects to learn more about the learning experience
Video
Developer tools
Very granular learning experience data & testing results …
Reading back from the LRS to make smarter courses
From within the course:
Where are you?
What are you learning from other
courses?
What did you do before?
Reading actual performance data from other systems to make smarter courses
What are people doing that’s better
than before?
Which learning experiences work
best to improve performance?
Based on performance, what
learning do I need? Not need?
Handles some things better than SCORM
Social learning
Gamification
Badging & credentials
Aggregating across platforms
Formal & Informal learning
Plus a bunch of somewhat boring things that learning tech ought to do but couldn’t with SCORM
Work offline
Work outside the LMS
Work on a different server than the
LMS
Complex interaction & question-
level data tracking
What’s an instructional designer to do?
Skills you need:• Instructional Design
• Written Communication
• Visual Communication
• Developer Tools
• Project Management
• JavaScript
• Data Science
• Data smarts
• Good questions
• Business acumen
What is a day hike?
Those first-step projects that:
• Show real impact
• Help you figure out your data issues
• Prove your point
• Free or very low cost
• (Maybe even under the radar)
Things you can pick up and do
without breaking other things.
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Why do you need a day hike?
You can’t sell xAPI. (no one cares)
You can sell the connection between improved learning data and better organizational outcomes.
You probably need a proof-of-concept.
You have to show it.
SCORM on steroids
Where can I get it?
Sean Putman’s work in xapiquarterly.com
The hypomnema
Where can I get it?
https://github.com/TorranceLearning/bookmarklet
tincanapi.com/bookmarklet/
The experience learning to do list
Where can I get it?
https://github.com/TorranceLearning/xAPI-Gnome
Go forth.