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ADL Experience API (xAPI) UpdateAndy Johnson
Contractor with Problem Solutions, LLC in support of the ADL InitiativeI/ITSEC Plugfest24 March 2014
Orlando, FL
Merchandizing!
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xAPI – The People
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‣ Authors – More than 30 authors to the spec, approaching 100 contributors (via discussion/support)
‣ Membership – 221 on the specification mailing list, 55 registered on the weekly call
‣ Collaboration – Use Github, an online collaboration site. Over 600 “issues” solved. Anyone can register and then make a change. The group then gets 3+ days to view it. If it gets support by then and ADL approval, it becomes part of the spec.
xAPI – The Specification
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‣ xAPI hit version 1.0 in April 2013
‣ Stable and Interoperable
‣ As with SCORM, alphabet soup and gray area
‣ 1.0.3 this summer (I hope)
‣ A “tech spec for dummies” section
‣ No gray, no fuss, no muss
‣ Stars!
xAPI – The GitHub
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• Community Participation
• Branches
• Tags
• Pull Requests
• Milestones
• Pre-2.0 “Requirements”
xAPI – The Conformance
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• GitHub area
• Only test LRS (MUSTS)
• LRS ejects non-conformant content
• Testing requirement document
• Issues and classifications
• Software development to-date
– Two major test suite contributions
xAPI – The Roadmap
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• Multiphase approach – 0 is SCORM, 1 is dual-track (SCORM dominant still), 2 is SCORM optional, Phase 3= xAPI + any
• Suite of examples showing the Roadmap
• LMS to LRS synchronization, Server-side platform for testing (modified SRTE), Dual-wrapper, library,
• Also LMS content call “Listener”
• At least one course for each Phase – real courses that use the technology, at least 1 app, hopefully more
• Now until late summer
xAPI – The Profiles
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• Profiles add definition to xAPI’s flexible nature
• CMI5 (Art) – inheritance from ADL
• SCORM Profile
• Need for both
• Intentional Synchronization
• First of many “ADL” COPs
xAPI – The Design
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• Design “Cohorts”
• Free-to-participate group work to show off xAPI
• Pre-formed teams and interested individuals
• Build cool stuff like: Social Media Integration and Expert Novice Analysis
• Currently in 3rd “Season”, led now by Craig Wiggins, things like Augmented Reality, Ebooks, Gameification, and Learning Analytics
xAPI – The Use Cases
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• Do you hate the words “Out of scope” or “maybe next version”?
• Do you have a use case that isn’t been met because of some requirement?
• Do you have an xAPI use case that you haven’t even looked into the technical requirements for and can’t make that decision?
• Monthly meeting where anyone can be given the floor to bring up issues or present use cases
May Da Schwartz Be Wit’ Ya!
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Andy Johnson and Jason HaagAdvanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
[email protected]@adlnet.govResources: xapi.adlnet.gov
@ADLTechTeam @ADLmobile