The document summarizes a meeting discussion about tracking informal learning beyond traditional learning management systems (LMS). It introduces the Tin Can API, which can track a variety of learning experiences including on-the-job training and learning from peers. Tin Can uses statements with an actor, verb, and object format to record learning activities in a learning record store. While it provides more comprehensive tracking than SCORM, adopting Tin Can requires technology resources and may require a change in culture to support self-reported learning tracking. The discussion covers how companies can get started with Tin Can and addresses considerations around requirements, implications, and learner perspectives.

1. ATD SCC Dec 7th 2015 Meeting:
Hot Topic Round Table
Discussions
Learning Beyond the LMS:
Tracking Informal Learning
Jeff Potocki
Social Knowledge & Technology Coordinator: Mercer

2. Introduction
 Think about the last time you took an
online elearning course.
◦ What did it track/report?
◦ What didn’t it track? Why?
◦ What should it have tracked?
◦ What do we want it to track?

3. Current Technology
 SCORM
◦ Shareable Content Object Reference
Model
◦ Around for about 25 years
◦ Meant for web based learning only
◦ Transfers data such as completions,
scores, pass/fail only

4. Where is learning happening
now?
When is learning happening?

5. The 70:20:10 Learning Model
 70: On the Job
 20: From peers
 10: Formal Training

6. How do we track the 70 & 20?
 How is it tracked?
 What content?
 How is it being accessed?
 Who’s using it?
 How do we capture it?
 How do we measure it?
 How do we report it?

7. The Tin Can (Experience) API
 The next evolution of SCORM
 Not a replacement for SCORM
 Tracks experiences, informal learning,
real-world experiences, (not just
completions)
 Enables mobile tracking, games, and
virtual worlds experiences
 Allows data storage and retrieval (3rd
party reporting and analytics tools)

8. What is Tin Can?
 A protocol that sends statements to a
storage location
 Format: Actor, Verb, Object
◦ I (actor) watched (verb) a video on
protecting employee data (object)
 Similar to the Facebook activity
stream
◦ Your post is your learning activity
◦ That activity is stored in your profile

9. Requirements
 Activity Provider
◦ Elearning course, web browser mobile
app, company intranet
 LRS – Learning Record Store
◦ LMS not needed
 Reporting Solution

10. Implications of using Tin Can
 Technology. Developers needed.
 3 years old. Adoption growing.
 Budget

11. What about the learners?
 A change of culture from formal to self
and automatic learning reporting
◦ Are we ready for self reporting of
learning?
 Different way of tracking behavior
 Getting a more holistic view of what
learners are experiencing
 How does 70 & 20 affect
performance?

12. How are companies using Tin
Can?
 Elearning courses
 Button in a web browser
 Native mobile apps
 Gamification
 Social learning, badging

13. How to get started?
 What do you have in place now?
 What questions do you want to
answer?
 What are the gaps?
 Pilot some Tin Can applications
 Leverage tools you’re already using
(elearning authoring tools, LMS’s,
videos)
 Seek out applications with native Tin
Can support
 Try an LRS