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SCORM Vs. xAPI (Tin Can): eLearning Content Standards

Academy of Mine

Tin Can, otherwise known as xAPI, was developed in 2013 (over a decade after SCORM was released). Fast forward to 2013 and xAPI was released as a more advanced version of SCORM — the main difference is that you can track learning outside of the LMS and offline. After all, what’s the difference between SCORM and xAPI? What Is xAPI?

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SCORM vs. Tin Can (xAPI) vs. AICC: What’s the difference?

eLearningMind

Before we get into how SCORM, Tin Can (also called xAPI, or Experience API), and AICC are different, let’s start with what they all have in common: a complicated acronym (AICC is a doozy), and standards and specifications for eLearning content that is compatible across multiple platforms. What is AICC? What is SCORM?

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Ghost Edition – Top 10 Authoring Tools for 2013

eLearning 24-7

This year we will focus on the top ten authoring tools for 2013. SCORM/AICC. Was in the top 10 for 2012 and stays in for 2013. AICC/SCORM, SCORM 1.2, There you have it – the top ten authoring tools for 2013. Welcome to my yearly Halloween Edition. Each one has a frightful story to tell. Nice assessment tool.

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What is the xAPI Standard and Why is it the Future of Learning Technology?

Docebo

Thanks to the Aviation Industry Computer-based Training Committee (AICC) , elearning standards have been in place since 1988. AICC was formed during the early days of computer-based training to ensure the compatibility between learning content and early training technologies. Both SCORM and xAPI built off the framework AICC provided.

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Day 2 @LSCON, Nice keynote and I finally understand TinCan, Experience API, Scorm, ADL, IACC and CMI-5…….

Challenge to Learn

Eric Berg of Lingos got on stage to announce the 2013 global give back competition, I’m an ambassador for Lingos, it is a great organization that helps non-profit organizations that work internationally with eLearning facilities. The AICC developed in the early 1990 the AICC standard. So I was lost again. Pfff a whole story.To

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

The first official eLearning content standard, AICC was developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee in 1993 as a CD-ROM based standard. A predecessor to SCORM, AICC was difficult to work with and many steps were required to get content in the format running in a learning management system (LMS). Interoperability. JavaScript.

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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

eLearning 24-7

SCORM’s premise, not what it can or cannot do, was its huge premise of interoperability—far more so than AICC. In the late 80s, AICC, the predecessor to SCORM, was born. Fast forward to the early 2000s, and a US government-sponsored group, the ADL Initiative, took the best of AICC, added some much-needed changes, and SCORM 1.0

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