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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)

andy.johnson.ctr@adlnet.govjason.haag.ctr@adlnet.govResources: xapi.adlnet.gov

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