Moodle and xAPI: The story so far

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Sacha van Tienhoven
Director of Technology
Mark Aberdour
Platform Solutions Manager
Moodle and xAPI: The story so far
@vantienhoven @maberdour

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Points we will cover today
What is xAPI?
xAPI history – standards, industry, Moodle
Where next for xAPI and Moodle?

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Introduction to xAPI
For a world beyond SCORM, combining learning experiences
from many systems with organisational data
Defines communication between a learning experience and the
Learning Record Store (LRS)
Human-readable statements using Actor-Verb-Object (username
– completed – learning activity)

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Timeline
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Standards
Industry
Moodle

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Standards
xAPI
v1.0.0
released
May 2013
xAPI
v1.0.2
released
Oct 2014
xAPI
v1.0.1
released
Oct 2013
xAPI
v1.0.3
released
Sep 2016
cmi5
developer
release
May 2015
Cmi5
production
release
Jun 2016
IMS Caliper
production
release
Oct 2015

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Adopters start
showing xAPI
implementations
at conferences.
Aug 2012
Rustici
supports xAPI
in SCORM
Engine,
powering 200+
LMSes
Aug 2012
Industry
40+ registered
LMS and
Authoring
vendors
Dec 2012
First open
source LRS
released:
Learning
Locker
Oct 2013
Major HE
adoption of xAPI
via JISC Learning
Analytics system,
built on open
source LRS.
Aug 2014
Watershed
LRS launched
by Rustici
Jan 2014
JISC learning
Analytics
system signed
up by 50
Universities
Mar 2017

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
MOOTIEUK13
presentation by
Epic:
Understanding
the Tin Can API
Mar 2013
xAPI Launch
Link v1.0
plugin by
Andrew
Downes
Oct 2014
Moodle
Logstore xAPI
v1.0 plugin by
Charity
Learning
Consortium
Jan 2016
MDL-35433
created:
Implement
Experience API
(Tin Can)
Sept 2012
MDL-35433
xAPI is 3rd most
popular feature
request (130
votes)
Mar 2017
Caliper
Logstore
plugin by
Moodlerooms
(based on
Logstore xAPI)
Jul 2016
Watershed
LRS Report
plugin by
Watershed
Aug 2016

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Where next for xAPI and Moodle?
xAPI in Moodle core
Standards development
Learning analytics
Learning ecosystems
Digitising HE content
xAPI and Caliper both supported by
plugins to some extent, need to move into
Moodle core.
Enable both inward and outward data to
support the data portability required by
xAPI specification.

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Where next for xAPI and Moodle?
xAPI in Moodle core?
Standards development
Learning analytics
Learning ecosystems
Digitising HE content
•Widespread adoption
•Experiences beyond the LMS/browser
•Data portability and transfer between systems
xAPI
•Learning Analytics framework
•Quantitative metrics and real-time messaging
•Borrows LRS spec from xAPI
IMS Caliper
•Next generation of SCORM
•LMS to content communication
•Elements of AICC + SCORM + xAPI
Cmi5

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Where next for xAPI and Moodle?
xAPI in Moodle core?
Standards development
Learning analytics
Learning ecosystems
Digitising HE content
If Moodle IS the analytics platform, then
use xAPI to import learning experience
data from outside the LMS?
Also a need to push xAPI data FROM
Moodle into other learning analytics
platforms (e.g. JISC Learning Analytics
platform)

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Where next?
xAPI in Moodle core?
Standards development
Learning analytics
Learning ecosystems
Digitising HE content

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Where next for xAPI and Moodle?
xAPI in Moodle core?
Standards development
Learning analytics
Learning ecosystems
Digitising HE content
Growth of digital content repositories
Impact on course authoring, analytics,
recommendations – xAPI has role to play
here?
Universities starting to adopt SCORM
more widely, this becomes more personal
and interactive with xAPI and cmi5

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