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What Is xAPI? Overview & Benefits of Experience API

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Back to Blog Employee Training & Development What Is xAPI? the Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, aptly said, ‘xAPI is what helps us put the puzzle together’. What Is xAPI? xAPI stands for Experience API and is a cutting-edge eLearning standard format. xAPI is a massive ‘upgrade’ to SCORM.

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Want to be successful at e-Learning? Don’t make the mistakes experts make!

Challenge to Learn

Be careful of Vendor lock in. That is one reason that you want to be able to switch from vendor, but another one is that the tool is just not good enough, doesn’t meet your requirements anymore or the service is really bad. You have the risk for a vendor lock in with almost all LMS (Learning Management Systems).

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Want to be successful at e-Learning? Don’t make the mistakes experts make!

Challenge to Learn

Be careful of Vendor lock in. That is one reason that you want to be able to switch from vendor, but another one is that the tool is just not good enough, doesn’t meet your requirements anymore or the service is really bad. You have the risk for a vendor lock in with almost all LMS (Learning Management Systems).

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 1 (A-L)

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From API to xAPI, the words we use everyday can be complex and confusing. ADDIE: An acronym made up of the words: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The ADDIE process for developing learning solutions has gone through a number of iterations since it was first used in the 1950s.

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E-Learning Jargon: What you might think it is.well…

eLearning 24-7

The spin is that you can accrue points by reading an article, taking a course, leaving comments, ranking content, completing an assessment and so on – varies among vendors. For some reason a lot of vendors, erroreously assume that modules is widely used – it isn’t. ADDIE - Should be punted into outer space.

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How to Create an Online Course regardless of authoring tool or lack thereof

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What to Ignore ADDIE. Thus, ignore ADDIE unless you are an instructional designer/developer who still thinks storyboards and other stuff are a must. What I am working on I reached out to each vendor to see what they could offer folks who are curious about their authoring tool, but don’t want to buy yet.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

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From Agile to xAPI and everything in between, there are a lot of eLearning terms to get your head around. ADDIE (Analysis Design Development Implementation). The ADDIE model is an acronym: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Notable contributions include SCORM and xAPI. Agile Learning.