Sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R)

Designing for xAPISlides by Jason Haag and Andy Johnson

Contractor with Problem Solutions, LLC in support of the ADL InitiativeI/ITSEC Plugfest

3 December 2014Orlando, FL

Design Environment

Design for Personalized and Brokered Content

MultipleDevice Support

Aid:•Intelligent Tutors•Mentors and peers via social networks•Self-Discovery

Design Using:•Simulations•Games•Virtual Worlds•Intelligent content

Getting Started with xAPI Design (ISD)

1. Learn how to apply the xAPI2. Work with tools that support the xAPI3. Design outside-the-box solutions4. Identify the learning experience information to

collect5. Use controlled vocabularies6. Develop and test prototypes7. Transform prototypes into products

5 Things A Developer Must Know

1. Technical knowledge and skills (APIs, JSON, REST)2. Learn the terminology (statements, actor, verb,

object, agents, IRIs, context properties, LRS)3. Go granular4. Establish standards for organizational adoption5. Access to xAPI resources & community

xAPI Design Group (Cohorts)1. xAPI-Design is a team-based, open, applied

learning experience2. Teams work together for 9-14 weeks, we have a

weekly sharing/bragging session and discussion about xAPI topics

3. Projects vary greatly in scope and topic4. Teams retain all IP rights, ADL would like to

showcase as demos/proof-of-concepts

xAPI Design Community of Practice:

1. Facilitate the creation and sharing of xAPI work within various xAPI communities and interest groups

2. Provide guidelines and best practices for defining and developing controlled vocabularies

3. Standardize how xAPI statements are expressed for each type of design profile (e.g. videos using xAPI)

xAPI Resources & Adoption

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‣ xAPI Specification & Documentation

‣ https://github.com/adlnet/xAPI-Spec/

‣ xAPI JavaScript Wrapper

‣ https://github.com/adlnet/xAPIWrapper

‣ Learning Record Store

‣ https://github.com/adlnet/ADL_LRS

‣ Adoption

‣ 9 LRS Solutions (open source & commercial)

‣ Integrated into eLearning authoring tools

‣ Over 200 active participants in Working Groups