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Designing Beyond SCORM: What is the Tin Can API?
Megan [email protected] * @meganbowe
ASTD PhillyMarch 21, 2013
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SCORM did one thing fairly well
Course
LMS 1 LMS 2
LMS 3
Four for you
And, four for you ....and
four for you
Did they finish?Did the pass?What was their score?How much time was spent?
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A shared language to capture people’s experiences across contexts.
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The Basics
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I did this.Brian Miller experienced 'Java JAX RS · wordnik/swagger-
core Wiki’
Brian Miller experienced 'A Comparison of Spring MVC
and JAX-RS’
Tammy Rutherford experienced 'Questions I've Fielded on
Tin Can API’
Megan Bowe attempted 'Js Tetris - Tin Can Prototype'
Megan Bowe completed 'Js Tetris Level1’ with Score ‘780’
Megan Bowe liked 'Why I'm adopting Tin Can’
Tammy Rutherford shared ‘her business card’
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Mobile
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Simulations
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Performance Support
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Offline and Long Running Content
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Security and Authentication
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SCORM and design
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How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers?
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How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers?
You have to make a course.
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How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers?
You have to make a course.
The course can only tell you certain things. (duration, score, finished, passed)
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How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers?
You have to make a course.
The course can only tell you certain things.
The course has to live in an LMS.
(duration, score, finished, passed)
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Just put the marbles in the box.
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Unleash your imagination
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Inventory 101
Intended to help employees locate products with the inventory system
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Inventory 101
The inventory system and LMS are completely separate systems
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Inventory 101
Everyone launched it once, completed it, and got a passing score
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I have no idea if employees can, in fact, locate products more effectively now.
Where’s the value?
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That’s not okay
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Opportunity
Actors
Customers
Systems
Change
Environment
Owners
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Think in feedback loops
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Credit is due
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Going back to the inventory system
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1. What’s the opportunity?
2. What activities do you believe lead to what outcomes?
3. What interactions can generate data that will inform your
decisions?
4. Where can you create loops and iteratively improve them?(should be many places)
Starting.
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Tin Can Tools Today
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Authoring Tools
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Articulate Storyline outputs trackable content to iPads using Tin Can!
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LMS and Content Delivery Platforms
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Social collaboration in virtual classrooms
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Proprietary game engine using spaced learning
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Interactive digital textbooks
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Training in virtual worlds
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“Foursquare for learning” – check-in to learning events and share what you’ve learned.
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Real-time classroom analytics
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Moving to an LRS-centric architecture
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Many Others - This is Happening
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Questions?Comments?Concerns?
Jokes?
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