xapi blog 2020 MVP authors

Honoring our 2020 MVP blog authors

At Rustici Software, I’m lucky to work with colleagues who enjoy sharing their expertise with others through blog writing. What better way to show my appreciation than nominating the authors for an award? Well, eLearning Learning was looking for nominations for the best of the…

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xAPI blog Rise in VR at I/ITSEC

Rise in virtual reality at I/ITSEC: Opportunity for xAPI

I’ve been going to I/ITSEC for many years now. If you’re not familiar with I/ITSEC, it’s the premier event for modeling, simulation and training systems with over 17K registrants at NTSA’s 2019 annual conference. The trade show floor really showcased the rise in off-the-shelf virtual…

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xAPI.com blog cmi5 "defined" vs. "allowed" statements

cmi5 “defined” vs. “allowed” statements

There has been a recent uptick in the number of questions received by our support group involving cmi5 implementations, specifically related to creating cmi5 content or activities. While these questions are a great indicator that adoption of cmi5 is on the rise, they also gives…

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Why cmi5?

The part of the xAPI community that loves the freedom to live outside of an LMS, the vast majority of it, loves cmi5. They just don’t know it yet. This is the story of how I came back to an LMS, after having never really…

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I Want This: Tin Can Plans, Goals and Targets

Learning plans, goals and targets are important. Setting goals for learning allows us to evaluate whether or not we are learning the things that we set out to learn. It’s standard practice for e-learning courses and qualifications to have learning outcomes attached to them, and…

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Keeping time part 2: Duration for Activity Providers

What’s the difference between session duration and attempt duration? Timestamp or Stored? When should you record time taken and how can you report it? This series of blogs will look specifically at duration and how to report on it. The SCORM veterans at Rustici Software…

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Keeping time part 1: Defining Duration

What’s the difference between session duration and attempt duration? Timestamp or Stored? When should you record time taken and how can you report it? This series of blogs will look specifically at duration and how to report on it. Let’s start our first blog by…

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Updating the Prototypes

The prototypes have been with us since the beginning. Recently I’ve given them an update from a tracking design perspective. In the beginning, before xAPI version 0.9 and before you or I had even heard of xAPI, there were the prototypes. These example activities helped…

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