Category: Open Source + Standards
IEEE "State of the xAPI" Survey Results Released
With over 40 different vendors and 80 different commercial and open-source tools, I’m happy to release the results of the first State of the xAPI: Tools Survey on behalf of the IEEE xAPI Study Group. This data has been collected from vendors voluntarily sharing information beyond just simply stating they’ve adopted. In this comma-separated-value (CSV) file, you’ll see…
Answers: Where are Discussions About Experience API?
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve started to get some great questions about getting oriented to working with the Experience API. For Megan and I, we’ve been so involved from the ground floor (as a lot of the community is) that we sometimes forget that people are finding out about it anew… all the…
xAPI Standardization Working Group Kickoff
***Update 2/25/14**** The kickoff happened yesterday with stellar attendance and participation, very awesome! If you missed it, here’s how to get caught up: You can replay the presentation, here. If you prefer, the slides are available here. The community discussion will take place here on Google+, do join if you want to participate or just…
How Open Source Can Reframe a Market
Update: This is cross-posted to the Learning Locker blog, too! I don’t know how many open source project leaders think about the overall design of their project, including the community and the market in which the software or the *thing* they’re building will exist in, but it’s something Megan & I worked through a lot about…
Liquid Swords
The news in short: I’m officially chairing the very brand new IEEE xAPI Study Group, which is the first step towards the standardization of Experience API™ (aka “Tin Can”). Awwwww yeah. In just two short weeks, Megan & I have launched MakingBetter, an open source enterprise-ready Learning Record Store and now… moving the API from…
Delivering on the Experience API
…and by Experience API, I mean Tin Can (cough). That said, I wrote an article for Learning Technologies Magazine about what it will really take to make the movement around this new standard successful. The article is chock-full of the most exciting words on the internet, like “conformance” and, uh, “validators”. Jokes aside, we’ve come…