This presentation by Megan Torrance, President of Torrance Learning highlights short activities that can be used to leverage xAPI without breaking the bank. Torrance Learning's xAPI Cohorts groups teams of interested users to create xAPI projects that are shared to provide a starting point and foster discussion about xAPI and it's use for Learning & Performance Support.
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Receive coaching
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6. When we live in a SCORM world …
… we live in a box.
7. In a SCORM world…
We focus effort on the instruction & the media in elearning.
In an xAPI world…
We focus on the instruction & the media & the data in everything.
8. In a SCORM world…
Developer tools do the heavy lifting for SCORM.
In an xAPI world…
There are few rich developer tools do the heavy lifting for xAPI yet.
10. In a SCORM world…
We don’t think much about data or reporting.
In an xAPI world…
We now get to think about data and reporting that makes sense for learning.
11. In a SCORM world…
We probably don’t track out-of-LMS learning at depth or scale.
In an xAPI world…
We can track out-of-LMS learning at depth and scale.
12. In a SCORM world…
We may struggle to tie learning “completions” to results.
In an xAPI world…
We can tie learning & behavior to organization results if we do it right.
19. Conrad Gottfredson & Bob Mosher's
5 (9) Moments of Learning Need
5 Moments of Learning Need: Gottfredson & Mosher
9 Moments of Need: Torrance
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SCORM
xAPI
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20. An Experience Learning Model
Experience
Debrief
Reflection
Action
Planning
What
What
happened?
So what?
Now what?
22. What can you do now that you have
xAPI?
Learn more about the learning experience
Learn more about the performance
Correlate learning with performance
Correlate learning with results
Correlate performance with results
Offer more targeted training
Support performance in better ways
Learn from others
Share learning with others
Compare performance and learning across learners
Deliver and track training outside of the LMS
23. xAPI is all about
INTEROPERABILITY,
not silos.
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24. FORMING STORMING NORMING PERFORMING
xAPI needs geeks Geek-free
tools emerge
Communities of Practice work to define usage
Learn-by-doing in Cohorts
Conformance Certification
Formal training opportunities
Project Tin Can Specification Standard
More common
than SCORM
x
Is xAPI ready for prime time?
27. What is a day hike?
Those first-step projects that:
Show real impact
Help you figure out your data issues
Prove your point
Free or very low cost
(Maybe even under the radar)
Things you can pick up and do
without breaking other things.
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28. Why do you need a day hike?
You can’t sell xAPI. (no one cares)
You can sell the connection
between improved learning
data and better organizational
outcomes.
You probably need a proof-of-
concept.
You have to show it.
29. Pick the
right project
SCORM is not the (best) answer
The project’s sponsor is on board
and knows what she or he is
getting into
Failure is an option
30. Be clear about
your goals
Choose your question. Why are
you doing this in the first place?
Form your hypothesis. What do
you think will happen? How will you
know it will happen? What data will
you need to collect to be sure?
Create an experiment (your
project). How will you set up your
learning experience to gather the
data you need? What is your
control group?
31. Choose your
activity
provider
Use elearning development tools
Use a bookmarklet
Sign up for a free account
at xapiapps or other tools
Write some code
39. FORMING STORMING NORMING PERFORMING
xAPI needs geeks Geek-free
tools emerge
Communities of Practice work to define usage
Learn-by-doing in Cohorts
Conformance Certification
Formal training opportunities
Project Tin Can Specification Standard
More common
than SCORM
x
Are you ready for prime time?
ASK: Using your pointer tool, put your name on which onboarding plan you’d rather participate in.
DISCUSS: Why did you pick that?
One way to look at it is that xAPI is the next Generation SCORM. It’s a lot more than that, but let’s take a minute and talk about where we’re starting, and that’s, in most cases, SCORM.
ASK: In chat, summarize what you know about SCORM. Do you use it? Do you have to pay attention to it?
SCORM is a standard for the way that elearning courses communicate with their learning management systems. It tracks about 20 pieces of data, about 5 of which are interesting to instructional designers, and it’s all packaged up in a nice neat container.
SCORM is just fine if everything you need to learn and track can be housed in your LMS. And you only learn when you’re connected to the internet and logged into the LMS.
ASK: How much of what your learners need to know is learned in an elearning course in the LMS?
It’s worthwhile to spend a little bit of time talking about what happens when we live in a SCORM world (which we all do) and how xAPI is different.
Otherwise, what I’ve found is that people try to re-create SCORM using xAPI, instead of thinking bigger.
With SCORM we’re only tracking the things in the blue ring, and really we’re only catching the practice if we’re being very clever about it. Or not tracking it very deeply.
With xAPI we can be tracking the green ring as well – what’s going on terms of behaviors and how we’re
Overlaying Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation Levels and Cathy Moore … with what we can track in xAPI and what we have historically been able to track using Kirkpatrick
Similarly the 70/20/10 model.
And the Gotfredson Mosher 5 moments of learning need (which I have expanded to 9 moments)
5 Moments of Learning Need: Gottfredson & Mosher http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/949/
9 Moments of Need: Torrance https://www.td.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2014/09/Nine-Moments-of-Learning
That’s because it’s all about interoperability. You’re building a large platform … not continuing a bunch of silos held together with bailing twine and bandages.
But that’s a completely different story for a different day.
Choose your question. Why are you doing this in the first place?
Form your hypothesis. What do you think will happen? How will you know it will happen? What data will you need to collect to be sure?
Create an experiment (your project). How will you set up your learning experience to gather the data you need? What is your control group?
But what happens when change happens AFTER it’s supposed to?