Experience API: A Technical Overview

The Experience API (xAPI) enables learning content and systems to speak to each other to record and track all types of learning experiences. This excerpt from the April 2013 Infoline, "Using the Experience API to Track Learning," offers a technical overview of xAPI.

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Fri Jun 14 2013

The last e-learning standard created over 10 years ago (SCORM), and still used today, is a collection of standards for web-based learning that defines communication between content and something called a run-time environment. As more people start learning on mobile devices and in systems outside the LMS run-time environment, they turn to xAPI to solve many of the problems inherent in SCORM.

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