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Sacha van TienhovenDirector of Technology

Mark AberdourPlatform Solutions Manager

Moodle and xAPI: The story so far

@vantienhoven @maberdour


Points we will cover today

What is xAPI?

xAPI history – standards, industry, Moodle

Where next for xAPI and Moodle?


Introduction to xAPI

For a world beyond SCORM, where learning experiences happen on many systems, not within a single LMSDefines communication between a learning experience and the Learning Record Store (LRS)Human-readable statements using Actor-Verb-Object (username – completed – learning activity)


Timeline

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Standards

Industry

Moodle


2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Standards

xAPIv1.0.0

releasedMay 2013

xAPIv1.0.2

releasedOct 2014

xAPIv1.0.1

releasedOct 2013

xAPIv1.0.3

releasedSep 2016

cmi5 developerreleaseMay 2015

Cmi5 production

releaseJun 2016

IMS Caliper

productionreleaseOct 2015


2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Adopters start showing xAPI

implementations at conferences.

Aug 2012

Rusticisupports xAPI

in SCORM Engine,

powering 200+ LMSes

Aug 2012

Industry

40+ registered LMS and

Authoring vendors

Dec 2012

First open source LRS released: Learning Locker

Oct 2013

Major HE adoption of xAPIvia JISC Learning Analytics system,

built on open source LRS.

Aug 2014

Watershed LRS launched

by Rustici

Jan 2014

JISC learning Analytics

system signed up by 50

Universities

Mar 2017


2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

MOOTIEUK13 presentation

by Epic: Understanding

the Tin Can API

Mar 2013

xAPI Launch Link v1.0 plugin by Andrew Downes

Oct 2014

Moodle

Logstore xAPIv1.0 plugin by

Charity Learning

Consortium

Jan 2016

MDL-35433 created:

Implement Experience

API (Tin Can)

Sept 2012

MDL-35433 xAPI is 3rd most

popular feature request

Mar 2017

CaliperLogstoreplugin by

Moodlerooms(based on

Logstore xAPI)

Jul 2016

Watershed LRS Report plugin by

Watershed

Aug 2016



xAPI in Moodle coreStandards developmentLearning analyticsLearning ecosystemsDigitising HE content

xAPI and Caliper both supported by plugins to some extent, need to move into Moodle core.

Enable both inward and outward data to support the data portability required by xAPI specification.



xAPI in Moodle core? Standards developmentLearning analyticsLearning ecosystemsDigitising HE content

•Widespread adoption•Experiences beyond the LMS/browser•Data portability and transfer between systems

xAPI

•Learning Analytics framework•Quantitative metrics and real-time messaging•Borrows LRS spec from xAPI

IMS Caliper

•Next generation of SCORM•LMS to content communication•Elements of AICC + SCORM + xAPI

Cmi5




If Moodle IS the analytics platform, then use xAPI to import learning experience data from outside the LMS?

Also a need to push xAPI data FROM Moodle into other learning analytics platforms (e.g. JISC Learning Analytics platform)


Where next?





Growth of digital content repositories

Impact on course authoring, analytics, recommendations – xAPI has role to play here?

Universities starting to adopt SCORM more widely, this becomes more personal and interactive with xAPI and cmi5


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