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The Experience API (xAPI) - Learning

Can Happen Everywhere.

Let's start here.

Presented by Mzinga, Inc.

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Being social is about interacting & engaging each other & sharing ideas… so the best way to experience it, is to just jump in and do it!

Feel free to tweet about our discussion (#mzinga). We will also be continuing the discussion on Twitter after our webinar for 30 minutes.

Join the chat. If you have any advance questions during the presentation, just add them into the chat now and we’ll address them at the end of the session

We also know some of you will prefer to just listen; that’s cool too

After the event, the

following materials will

be made available to all

of you:

• Presentation slides

• Webinar recording

Session Follow-up

A Few Housekeeping Items…

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Agenda

About Mzinga

Why should you care about a new learning standard?

What is the Experience API (xAPI)?

What is Mzinga going to do with it?

Demonstration

Q&A

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About The Presenters

Tamie Johnson

• Vice President of Social Learning

Danielle Tully

• Senior Software Architect

Casey Singer

• Senior Technical Solutions Engineer

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Who is Mzinga?

Technology & Services

Robust social software technology suite

SaaS deployment

Scalable solution platform with flexible deployment options

Strategic consulting, learning & moderation services

Broadest Solution Set

Targeted social software solutions for:

• Marketing

• Employee collaboration & training

• Customer engagement & training

• Customer support

Company Headquartered in Burlington, MA

100 employees including network of 50 multilingual social media professionals

Experience Service millions of users across hundreds of leading brands worldwide

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What is OmniSocial Learning?

A flexible and SaaS

based social learning

platform, that can be

implemented quickly,

easily and deployed in

multiple ways, to help

organizations perform

and excel through

Customer and

Employee focus.

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Why should you care?

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What is the Experience API (xAPI, TinCan

API)? What It is not!

What xAPI is:• Standard developed by

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)

• The next version of SCORM –data standard for reporting learning activities

What xAPI is not:• A complete replacement for

SCORM

• Content Authoring

• Content Delivery

• Replacement for LMS

• Application

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What else is needed?

Learning Record Store

• Database designed to store xAPI statements

• Central repository to track informal learning activities

• Standalone or seamlessly built into an LMS

Wrapped Content that you want to track

• Videos

• Documents

• Collaboration

• Life Events

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From the ADL (Advanced Distributed

Learning):

Component of the Training and Learning Architecture (TLA)

Purpose is to store and provide access to learning experiences

Enables tracking of traditional records, such as scores and completions

Stores records of learners’ actions, such as reading an article or watching a training video.

Designed to provide tracking of activity, content, and training outside of a web browser

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Lets get into

the meat

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Sample xAPI statements

Informal LearningTamie favorited “The Experience API (xAPI): Learning Can Happen Everywhere” on Twitter

Casey watched “Setting up a Learning Record Store” on YouTube with Tamie

Personalized LearningTamie completed “Advanced Leadership” with result 89% on Mzinga LMS

Casey answered “Question 1” on Intro to LRS training course with a result of 100%

Performance TrackingMike closed a deal with ABC Company

for $5,000

Nancy completed a “Project 15” with

ABC Company in 3 days

Analysis & Visualization

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Sample xAPI code

Casey Singer attended the “xAPI Presentation”

{

"actor": {

"name": "Casey Singer",

"mbox": "csinger@mzinga.com"

},

"verb": {

"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/attended",

"display": {

"en-US": "attended"

},

"object": {

"id": "http://mzinga.com/xAPI_Presentation",

"definition": {

"name": { "en-US": "xAPI Presentation" }

}

}

}

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How will Mzinga use it? Phase 1

LRSLearners Launch Content from multiple devices

The LMS provides the content with location of the LRS (endpoint)

The content requests and sends data to the LRSThe LMS and LRS

communicate to show learner history and activities.

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How will Mzinga use it? Phase 2

LRSLearners Launch Content from multiple devices

The LMS provides the content with location of the LRS (endpoint)

The content requests and sends data to the LRS

The LMS and LRS communicate to show learner history and activities.

Consistent Integrations with 3rd

Party ToolsAdditional API’s

Additional Reporting/Syncing

LRS Utilities

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LMS Integration with xAPI

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Mzinga Learning Record Store

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Future of the LRS/xAPI integration

LRS

LRS LRSLRS

User

LMS

Web Content Games

Social

Dashboards

Everyday Life Experiences

Imagine

3rd Party Content

Real World Learning External Applications & LMS’s

External Events

Books

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Q&A

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Thank you!

Visit us at Mzinga.com

Contact us at

Learnmore@mzinga.com