Slides presented as part of the Elearning Guild's Online Forum, December 17, 2015.

1. xAPI, the Internet of Things,
Gnomes, and a Learning
Experience Checklist

2. Introductions

3. Take a
guess…
• How many Internet connected
devices are there?
• How many xAPI statements were
sent in 2015?

4. Source: https://www.ncta.com/platform/industry-news/infographic-the-growth-of-the-internet-of-things/

5. We
calcufaked… 1,377,000,000

6. Welcome to your new job!

7. Tour the campus & buildings
Explore benefit package
Meet actual people
Attend webinar
Attend a class
Rate your experience
Complete online course
Observe something
Receive coaching
Watch a video
Follow a blog
Read a book
Elearning: Welcome & virtual tour
Elearning: Log into LMS
Elearning: Plant tour
Class: Your benefits & you
Class: Email and You
Elearning: Who’s who
Elearning: Our customers
Class: Finance 101
Recorded webinar
Webinar
Multiple choice test
Participate in an activity
Job shadow
Class: Using the intranet
Onboarding Plan BOnboarding Plan A

8. Elearning: Welcome & virtual tour
Elearning: Plant tour
Class: Email and You
Elearning: Who’s who
Elearning: Our customers
Class: Finance 101
Recorded webinar
Webinar
Multiple choice test
Class: Using the intranet
Elearning: Log into LMS
Class: Your benefits & you
Onboarding Plan A

9. Tour the campus & buildings
Explore benefit package
Meet actual people
Attend webinar
Attend a class
Rate your experience
Complete online course
Observe something
Receive coaching
Watch a video
Follow a blog
Read a book
Participate in an activity
Job shadow
Onboarding Plan B

10. Let’s back up then …

11. Tell us… • What are you doing with xAPI?

12. What is
xAPI?
• Answer #1
Next-generation SCORM
• Answer #2
A protocol for recording any learning
experience to give a more rich picture of
the development path.
• Answer #3
A protocol and language for sending and
retrieving data about learning
experiences: activity statements
• Answer #4
Independence from “silo-ed” LMS,
allowing you to connect multiple learning
and business platforms
• Answer #5
“the holy grail” where we can correlate job
performance data with training data to
assess people and training effectiveness

13. What is an
LRS?
The LRS (Learning Records Store) is the
database that captures all these
transactions. It receives, stores and
serves back xAPI data.
Typically an LRS comes with a number
of data visualizations that let you
interpret and use the data you’ve sent.

14. Anne wrote a blog post about local theatre
that got 45 views and 3 comments
Lindsey rated A2ATD event xAPI Technology
Competency @LearnShare
@MMTorrance 4 stars “coffee
rocked, room was cold”
Claire read Business Writing for Professionals
Josh watched the Company History video
Luke completed Oil Change Upselling
Cynthia completed Oil Change Upselling score 60%
Tonya simulated landing at DTW
Molly simulated landing at DTW in SimSuite #4 and
was rated 98% by Instructor
Actor verb object context

15. When we
live in a
SCORM
world …
• We focus on the instruction & the
media in elearning.
• Developer tools do the heavy lifting
for SCORM.
• We don’t think much about data or
reporting.
• We may struggle to tie learning
“completions” to organization
results.
• We probably don’t track out-of-LMS
learning at depth or scale.

16. In an xAPI
world …
• We focus on the instruction & the
media & the data in everything.
• There are very few rich developer
tools do the heavy lifting for xAPI
yet.
• We now get to think about data and
reporting.
• We can tie learning & behavior to
organization results if we do it right.
• We can track out-of-LMS learning at
depth and scale.
• We can import behaviors &
organizational results tied to
learning.
… & connect to the Internet of Things.

17. Tell us… • What are you doing with
Internet of Things?

18. What is this
Internet of
Things?
“IoT is a concept that describes a
future where devices, systems and
services around the world are
interconnected across a common
network (typically the Internet) and
are able to interact in ways that
fundamentally enhance the way we
live our lives.”
US Ignite Global Cities Challenge (2014) https://us-
ignite.org/globalcityteams/faq/

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21. About that
Internet of
Things…
“Connectivity and devices are just
enablers. The real value for users is
created by making sense of the data
that those devices generate. Sensors
generate data, data produces
knowledge, knowledge drives action.”
Schuermans & Vakulenko (2014)
IoT: Breaking Free From Internet and Things - How
Communities and Data will Shape the Future of IoT in Ways
We Can’t Imagine

24. These Things don’t fit neatly in a SCORM box.

25. What kinds
of IoT and
IoI are you
using in your
personal
life?
• IFTTT
• Zapier
• Fitbit
• Android Wear
• Apple Watch
• Pebble
• Nest
• Beacons
• WeMo
• NFC Tags
• Apple Pay/Android Pay
• Apple Homekit
• Philips Hue/LIFX bulbs
• Smart door locks
• Smart appliances
• Apple CarPlay/Android Auto

26. What kinds
of IoT and
IoI are you
using for
work and
learning?
• IFTTT
• Zapier
• Fitbit
• Android Wear
• Apple Watch
• Pebble
• Nest
• Beacons
• WeMo
• NFC Tags
• Apple Pay/Android Pay
• Apple Homekit
• Philips Hue/LIFX bulbs
• Smart door locks
• Smart appliances
• Apple CarPlay/Android Auto

28. !
Design a solution to
meet stated needs
!
Respond to
questions correctly
!
Decide a course
of action
!
Collect & enter
data accurately
!
Nail roof
shingles safely
Practice in
Training
Know . . .
Business Goal
that solves a
Business Problem
Adapted from: Cathy Moore
Cathy Moore’s Action Mapping

29. Kirkpatrick’s Levels of
Training Evaluation
Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 / 4 Level 4 / 5
Behaviors
!
Practice &
Testing
Knowledge
& Retention
Results &
ROI
Level 1
Satisfaction
&
Experience
SCORM
xAPI

30. The 70/20/10
PeopleExperience Formal
SCORM
xAPI

31. The 5 (9) Moments of Learning Need
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
New
More
Solve
Change
SCORM
xAPI
SCORM
Before
Prepare
Remember
Teach

32. What questions do you have?

33. xAPI Design Cohort
xAPI Gnome & the Onboarding Checklist

34. Reporting
out:
ADL’s Design
Cohort
Learning
Experience
• Sponsored by the ADL
• Some 15 teams
• Worked along side each other for 13
weeks
• Each team worked on a project of
their choosing in which they
experimented and implemented
some aspect of the xAPI
• Weekly meetings across all teams to
share ideas, lessons learned, guest
presentations, etc.
• Fabulous way to learn by doing.
• This is where Meg and Patrick met.

36. Employee OnboardingMeet Finbert
Welcome to
Fresh Fish
here in
Nome, Alaska!

45. Finbert goes to work...Employee Onboarding

46. What questions do you have?

47. So what did we learn?

48. Reading
data from
the LRS is
essential
• Use callbacks: checklist items are
only marked complete visually when
the LRS says so
• Allows us to act upon the recording
of individual xAPI statements as they
occur
• This reading of the LRS is what
enabled the connection between the
learning and the IoT – this is how we
found out what was going on outside
the learning environment.

49. Sourcing our
verbs
• Smart: Grammar counts
• Hard: There is no one source of all
verbs
• Then: Make up your own

50. What is
complete?
• Completion!?!?!
• Checklist sends “Complete” to LRS
once all items are checked off
• We built a “Complete All” button
• Checklist determines completion vs.
LRS/LMS determining completion

51. What comes
next?
• What questions do you have?
• What ideas does this spark for your
own learning projects?

52. Join the xAPI Learning Cohorts
starting February 2016!
Meg Fairchild
mfairchild@torrancelearning.com
Patrick Selby
vreten@gmail.com
@xAPIGnome