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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

At the dawn of the video recording age, a battle raged about the best standard to use: VHS or Betamax. In it, Sony came out with a better standard, but kept it to themselves. Meanwhile, JVC’s VHS standard wasn’t quite as good, but they openly licensed it. Standards provide several benefits. Learning Standards.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

From Agile to xAPI and everything in between, there are a lot of eLearning terms to get your head around. Notable contributions include SCORM and xAPI. The first official eLearning content standard, AICC was developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee in 1993 as a CD-ROM based standard. Agile Learning.

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Transitioning from SCORM to xAPI

Web Courseworks

On October 5 th , 2017, the Department of Defense announced that its eLearning curricula would adhere to xAPI standards rather than the more traditional SCORM standards of the eLearning industry. I’m not going to delve deeply into the advantages and disadvantages of xAPI in this blog post.

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Think xAPI is Next-Generation SCORM? Think Again

Talented Learning

Anthony is an independent xAPI evangelist and Instructional Developer for the Internet of Things. If you’re an elearning professional, you’ve probably seen or heard the term xAPI countless times. But are you still fuzzy about where SCORM ends and xAPI begins? How Did the SCORM/xAPI Confusion Begin?

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LearnDash Named One of the Top LMSs of 2020

LearnDash

xAPI or Tin Can API) is a protocol that defines how the client side content talks to the host environment. Of course, the hosted LMS crowd doesn’t want you to be able to leave their system, which is part of the reason they use a different standard. Fortunately, this isn’t an issue for LearnDash. So, why didn’t they make the cut?

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

LearnUpon

If the manifest file isn’t located in the root of the zip, the course isn’t a valid SCORM content package at all and you will likely run into issues importing it to your LMS. Once a specification has been recognized by an official body, it becomes a standard, like AICC , SCORM or Tin Can xAPI.

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The next chapter in Rustici Engine’s LRS xAPI performance

Rustici Software

Rustici Engine has supported xAPI (the Experience API) since 2011 when we created the initial version for ADL. We always expected the volume and type of data to cause scalability issues. Although, our understanding of how to address those issues has grown as well. It was time.

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