Category: Case Study

  • Data Strategy Starts with Reporting Strategy

    Data Strategy Starts with Reporting Strategy

    I want our individual contributors to gain the skills and the hard learnings of working with xAPI so they can grow their skills and mature our practices independent of my spoon-feeding information when it finally seems relevant (to me). As a result, I get questions and feedback that helps me more effectively understand how, at…

  • Governing How Survey Questions Relate to Concepts

    Governing How Survey Questions Relate to Concepts

    Today we defined the work-to-be-done to address the need for a top-down schema of the survey, so today let’s focus on how I’m thinking about our first xAPI Profile.

  • Modeling, Up & Down: Statements & Profiles

    Modeling, Up & Down: Statements & Profiles

    This is the fourth in a series. In my last post, I identified at least two work-streams for the team to pursue in coming up with our analytics strategy, which for all intents and purposes is our integration strategy

  • Slicing and Dicing Data Model Work-to-be-Done

    Slicing and Dicing Data Model Work-to-be-Done

    In my last post, I shared a bit of background on the Casey-Fink Graduate Nursing Experience Survey, which I’m using in an ongoing case-study on how to approach analytics strategy. Today’s post will get further into the details of how to set up the work-to-be-done, in terms of data modeling.

  • Analytics Strategy for Surveys-at-Work: Casey-Fink

    Analytics Strategy for Surveys-at-Work: Casey-Fink

    The words “analytics strategy” can be scary, but really it’s just a) identifying what we want to know about content and how it gets used; and b) defining clearly how we’re going to do that.

  • What is Precision Learning?

    What is Precision Learning?

    I define precision learning as an instructional methodology for continuous curriculum-based assessment towards observable outcomes with measurable goals. The “precision” makes it a little buzwordy, however I posit it helps situate what it is in the context of its origins…

  • xAPI Camp: Call for Proposals

    xAPI Camp: Call for Proposals

    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…

  • Case Study: Community of Developing Practice

    Case Study: Community of Developing Practice

    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…