Airlines use complex software and systems for their operations. Enormous retailers have incredibly efficient supply chain management and retail operation systems. Despite these impressive systems, it’s still common for big companies to send managers out to evaluate employee performance with clipboards full of paper checklists.…
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We have a treat for those who want details on how to best use statements to describe learning activities. This is going to be a very technical webinar (you can register for it here). If you’re not familiar with the xAPI specification, you might want…
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The Registry has been up for a few weeks. A number of people have created profiles and started using it to catalog their data types. It’s great! There are a couple things here, and it really comes down to the fact that we’re looking to…
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Collectively, we could make a big mess of xAPI data. Let's try to avoid that. At this point you likely know that xAPI communicates activity data in the form of statements. Each statement is required to have some pieces like actor, verb and object. They…
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We spend a good amount of time working with software companies who build learning technology. The main question in these conversations is “Why should we adopt?” There are many reasons, some more theoretical than practical today (but who doesn’t love the ideal present?!) To break…
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“If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you” — Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar Open efforts and open source are a big part of how the spec and adoption have made it to where we are today. Without the…
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We get this question a lot. To do xAPI properly, you need an LRS to send your statements to. Statements are generally the focal point of xAPI, but LRSs play a vital role in creating rich collections of data and making the data interoperable. To…
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I wrote an article for Learning Technologies Magazine this month. The premise of the article is that in a world where data is being collected in droves, we need to design better ways for people to understand what they’re giving up and ways for them…
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xAPI has been spreading internationally at an amazing speed. This month it’s become more evident than ever before. That’s partially because so many of us at Rustici Software have been on the road. We’re a small company, less than 25 people. Everyone is in Nashville,…
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xAPI and Activity Streams have a lot in common. Many know that Activity Streams was the foundation for some of the core concepts in the xAPI, like the “I did this” statement structure. We based xAPI on Activity Streams because it's a brilliant model. By…
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