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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough. The ADL provided compliance testing, so that content and systems could be validated for interoperability. ADL decided to create a new standard, the Experience API (xAPI; originally known as Tin Can). And because of the 800 lb.

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Tin Can: My First impressions from mLearnCon 2012

Upside Learning

I attended a session by Aaron Silvers, Community Manager at Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). ADL) who would take up responsibility of having an LRS for each person? The session interestingly was titled ‘Design of the Possible: Powered by the Tin Can API’. Post the summary I also raise a few questions. I hope I get some answers.

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July 2010 Monthly Roundup: 10 Most Popular Posts

Upside Learning

In continuation to the first post of this series that spoke about types of applications, fundamental human interface design principles and the iPhone OS environment, this article covers the various components available for developing the user interface of your iPhone application.

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Singapore Learning Symposium Resources #SLS2013

Kapp Notes

Here are some links to interested articles on that topic. Here is an article from Wired on the subject. Here is a link to the Hays article , lots of good information in the article (although, at this point, a little dated.). The article is titled This Is Your Life (and How You Tell It). From DARPA about Plan X.

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 2 (M-Z)

LearnUpon

SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model): A set of standards developed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) and applied when developing LMS content. This article will help you to decide if SSO could work for you. SCORM defines how online learning content speaks to, and tracks results back to, an LMS.

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Tin Can API & the Future of E-Learning

Learnnovators

It is this aspect (potential applications of the Experience API) that we intend to mainly focus upon in this brief article, by triggering thoughts and ideas on the topic, along with curated pointers to some of the resources available on the web. However, ‘Experience API’ is ADL’s official name for this standard. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Games Teach!

Kapp Notes

It was sparked by Ruth Clark’s article “ Why Games Don’t Teach. ” The article kicked off a firestorm of debate, demands for proof and even name calling. Same with Dr. But, ok, let’s now look at a peer-reviewed study that appears to be adequately designed and was published in a peer review article.

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