Designing Beyond SCORM: What is the Tin Can API? Megan Bowe

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Designing Beyond SCORM: What is the Tin Can API?

Megan [email protected] * @meganbowe

ASTD PhillyMarch 21, 2013


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SCORM did one thing fairly well

Course

LMS 1 LMS 2

LMS 3

Four for you

And, four for you ....and

four for you

Did they finish?Did the pass?What was their score?How much time was spent?


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A shared language to capture people’s experiences across contexts.


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The Basics


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I did this.Brian Miller experienced 'Java JAX RS · wordnik/swagger-

core Wiki’

Brian Miller experienced 'A Comparison of Spring MVC

and JAX-RS’

Tammy Rutherford experienced 'Questions I've Fielded on

Tin Can API’

Megan Bowe attempted 'Js Tetris - Tin Can Prototype'

Megan Bowe completed 'Js Tetris Level1’ with Score ‘780’

Megan Bowe liked 'Why I'm adopting Tin Can’

Tammy Rutherford shared ‘her business card’


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Mobile


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Simulations

CC image by curimedia on flickr


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Performance Support

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfKYqQ5Sosg


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Offline and Long Running Content

CC image by mikecogh on flickr


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Security and Authentication

CC image by Alexandre Dulaunoy on flickr


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SCORM and design

CC image by minnesotahistoricalsociety on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minnesotahistoricalsociety


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How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers?


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You have to make a course.


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The course can only tell you certain things. (duration, score, finished, passed)


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The course can only tell you certain things.

The course has to live in an LMS.

(duration, score, finished, passed)


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CC image by minnesotahistoricalsociety on flickr

Just put the marbles in the box.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minnesotahistoricalsociety


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Unleash your imagination


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CC image by wjlonien on flickr

Inventory 101

Intended to help employees locate products with the inventory system

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wjlonien


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Inventory 101

The inventory system and LMS are completely separate systems



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Inventory 101

Everyone launched it once, completed it, and got a passing score



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I have no idea if employees can, in fact, locate products more effectively now.

Where’s the value?



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That’s not okay


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Opportunity

Actors

Customers

Systems

Change

Environment

Owners


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Think in feedback loops


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CC image by austingovella on slideshare


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Credit is due


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Going back to the inventory system


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1. What’s the opportunity?

2. What activities do you believe lead to what outcomes?

3. What interactions can generate data that will inform your

decisions?

4. Where can you create loops and iteratively improve them?(should be many places)

Starting.


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Tin Can Tools Today

CC image by felishumanus on flickr


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Authoring Tools


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Articulate Storyline outputs trackable content to iPads using Tin Can!


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LMS and Content Delivery Platforms


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Social collaboration in virtual classrooms


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Proprietary game engine using spaced learning


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Interactive digital textbooks


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Training in virtual worlds


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“Foursquare for learning” – check-in to learning events and share what you’ve learned.


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Real-time classroom analytics


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Moving to an LRS-centric architecture


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Many Others - This is Happening


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Questions?Comments?Concerns?

Jokes?

Megan [email protected]

@meganbowehttp://tincanapi.com

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