selling xapi / getting buy-in for torrancelearning download may 2016
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xAPI: Getting Buy-InART WERKENTIN, RISC
MEGAN TORRANCE, TORRANCELEARNING
Who am I?
Contact:www.risc-inc.com@[email protected]
• President, RISC Inc• LMS developer since 1988• 0.9 xAPI Adopter
Art Werkenthin
Who am I?
Contact:www.torrancelearning.com@[email protected]
• CEO, TorranceLearning• Doing L&D since 1991, LMS
deployment since 2002
Megan Torrance
You have an uphill battle ahead
• C-Suite• Management• IT• Students• Learning & development• Vendors
Challenges from the C-Suite
• Training Department tasked with…• “Teach productivity”• “Teach efficiency”• “Teach innovation”• PROVIDE EVIDENCE
• Changing student demographics• Current Tools Not Working
• E-learning• Instructor-Led & MOOC
xAPI Solutions for C-Suite
• We can only improve what we can measure• Measure skills in context with xAPI
• xAPI is an interoperability specification (data feeds?)• Internet of Things
SimulatorDrive
Measure
Skill Feedback Loop
Challenges from Management
• Reduce training time and cost
• Improve performance
• Improve retention
xAPI Solutions for Management
• “In-line” training can reduce time and costs• Allows learning & performance data in one place• Show the impact of learning on
performance• Continuous feedback loop
• Kill boring training
Challenges from IT
• Don’t need any more solutions to support
• Must lower costs
• Security
xAPI Solutions for IT
• Support• Cloud Based options• Easier than SCORM
• Costs• Free options (pilot project?)• Can REDUCE system integration costs
• Security• CAN be secure• Ask your vendor
Challenges from Students
• Save Me From Boring Training
• Improve my performance
• Data Privacy
xAPI Solutions for Students
• Kill the Boredom• Micro-Learning• Social Learning• Gaming & Simulations• Mobile
• Improve Performance• Skill feedback loop
• Data privacy• Don’t spy on me
– Adaptive Learning– In-Line Learning– Video
– JIT Training
– Who owns the data?
Challenges from L&D
• I don’t see how it works with my current tools that’s different from SCORM
• If I have to work with IT it won’t get done• My LMS isn’t ready
xAPI Solutions for L&D
• Current Developer Tools• Sean Putman’s State of the Tools • Life in a Post-SCORM World Part 2 xAPI Quarterly
• Working with IT• It’s not that hard. JSON, RESTful
• LMS / LRS roadmapping• Where on the roadmap?• Short term LRS for a Day Hike project?• Something new altogether? (or your burning platform for something
new!!!)
Challenges from Vendors
• We can do all the APIs!• SCORM wasn’t ever relevant to us• Is this going to stick?
xAPI Solutions for Vendors
• There’s one API to rule them all (at least in the learning space)• Minimize 1:1 APIs• This is early adopter time• Lots of tools to help you get started
• No, SCORM wasn’t relevant to your super-cool tool, but this is. • Look for the eager client with a solid business case• Be ready to move
• This is getting stickier by the minute.• Developer tools• LMS/LRS platforms
Browserwww.dashboardtool.com
Corporate Learning
[did] [something]
How Train by Cell could connect with corporate learning systems using xAPI
This is the xAPI statement
Corporate Learning
[did] [something]
Why would this matter to people? to learning leaders?
to Train by Cell? How did Sally learn to do her
job so well?
Who clicked the follow-up video link?
What & where have I learned
this year?
What did my team do at this
conference?Because never before has corporate
learning been able to track what happens outside its systems
Corporate LearningClicked a link
Answered a poll
Posted a photo
Commented
Downloaded a PDF
Completed a survey
What would Train by Cell tell the learning system?
We’d start with a minimum set to prove the concept & learn more
cmi5
• cmi5 can help you “sell” xAPI• Get rid of SCORM pop-up windows• Distributed content• Mobile friendly• Learning context
• To have cmi5, you must have an LRS
cmi5
Sneaky!
References
• http://xapiquarterly.com/2016/04/skills-intelligence-xapi/cmi5 Launch & Credit-Megan Bowe, Making Better
• http://tincanapi.com/how-get-buy-in/-Andrew Downes, Watershed
Questions?