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xAPI Camp: Call for Proposals

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Lots of news this week regarding xAPI Camps!

First off, it is now confirmed that our xAPI Camp – Seattle is actually (get ready for this)… xAPI Camp – Amazon. That’s right, kids. We’re going to be at Amazon’s HQ in Seattle on July 21 for a full day of xAPI awesomeness.

We now have four xAPI Camps we’re scheduling for:

21 July – Amazon (Seattle, WA)

29 September – DevLearn (Las Vegas, NV)

17 November – CSTD (Toronto, ON) – tentative date

15 March 2016 – Learning Solutions (Orlando, FL)

Which means we have a call for proposals going on starting TODAY — because the above camps are just what’s scheduled as of today. There are more in the works already through 2016.

After much feedback on our first xAPI Camp, we now have four types of sessions that will go into any xAPI Camp. We are encouraging everyone with a case study, a big challenge, a big idea or a lesson learned to sign up. So you know…

  1. A Case Study is a real implementation of xAPI.
  2. A Big Challenge describes a tough problem for your organization that requires a group of smart people to help with.
  3. A Big Idea is a possible use of xAPI that could catch on with help.
  4. A Lesson Learned comes from a place of love, where you would spare others the time it took for you to learn it. It can be super geeky.

We’re ready! Are you?


xAPI Camp Videos on Connections Forum

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As promised, almost every other day we’re posting something new from our one-day xAPI Camp that took place at University of Central Florida on March 24. There are many more videos to go, and you can check out what different organizations are doing with the Experience API right now!

Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson
LRS and xAPI Conformance

 

Ben Betts

Ben Betts
Enabling Personal Data Ownership

 

Marty Rosenheck

Marty Rosenheck
Driving Innovation in Teacher Education

 

Art Werkenthin

Art Werkenthin on CMI5

 

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John Delano
Speaking the Language of Business

 

Case Study: Community of Developing Practice

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In our last post, I mentioned that “we have a few things that are finally getting ready to come off the grill.”

Heh, no sooner did I write that than ATD published an article I wrote with Sarah Gilbert, the Director of the Informatics Academy at the Public Health Informatics Institute — an initiative of the Task Force for Global Health. Sarah engaged MakingBetter, starting in summer of 2014, in what’s become an amazing collaboration. This project stands to help a large number of Public Health Agencies improve their capacity for managing IT projects with measurable outcomes.

We’ll go into it more later. For now, read the article, “Learning Communities With Purpose,” which should be featured in T+D Magazine this January.