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Art Werkenthin
President, RISC
Art Werkenthin, president of RISC, built his first learning management system (LMS) in 1988 and now has over 25 years’ experience working with LMS in the oil and gas, retail, finance, and other industries. Art is keenly interested in the xAPI specification, and RISC was an early adopter of this technology. Interested in expanding the xAPI to the LMS, Art has served for the past three years on the ADL cmi5 committee. In 2015, RISC demonstrated the first implementation of a cmi5 runtime engine embedded in its LMS. Art has presented on cmi5 at several conferences, including mLearnCon, DevLearn, and xAPI Camp.
Latest from Art Werkenthin
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Use the GBLxAPI Library to Send xAPI Statements From Unity
With the rapid growth of AR, VR, and game-based learning, developers often ask, “How can I send xAPI statements from Unity?” Use the GBLxAPI Library!
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Evaluating Tools for Your xAPI Learning Ecosystem
Unless you create your own learning management ecosystem, you will need help from vendors. Here are the questions you should ask, and the answers to expect.
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Launch xAPI Content From An LMS: cmi5 Adoption by ADL Pending
cmi5 is the use-case for xAPI in the “LMS launches content” scenario. In other words, it is the official specification for launching xAPI content from an LMS.
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Using xAPI to Evaluate Successful Completion of eLearning
Few rapid authoring tools support learning objectives. This is a problem when evaluating how well learners meet objectives in xAPI.
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Make Any HTML File cmi5-Conformant
In June, 2016 ADL released cmi5, allowing use of xAPI in the “LMS launches content” scenario. If your content tool does not support cmi5, can you still benefit?
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Designing Your xAPI Data Strategy: xAPI-Statement Framework
By now, you probably know that xAPI statements store better and more usable data than SCORM. Maybe your first instinct is “store everything.” However, that may not be the best idea if you want to have analytics later! Knowing the structure of an xAPI statement may make it easier to decide what data to track. This article will help you assemble the xAPI statement components to do exactly that.
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ADL cmi5 Committee Announces Release of Quartz Version of cmi5 Specification
The ADL cmi5 committee has posted the Quartz version of the cmi5 specification to GitHub! If you don’t know what the cmi5 specification is, why it is important to your learning ecosystem, and how to find out more about it, you really need to read this announcement. And even if you do know about cmi5, you still need this information!
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Three Reasons Why cmi5 Is Better Than SCORM
cmi5, the new specification from ADL, is solving many of the persistent problems with SCORM that learners, as well as content developers, have had to contend with. Here’s an update on how Sandstone, the current beta of cmi5, is addressing the issues of pop-up windows, distributed content, and data storage.
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Experience API, cmi5, and Future SCORM
The current standard for eLearning-to-LMS communication is SCORM, the Shareable Content Object Reference Model. Originally released in 2001, SCORM is rapidly becoming obsolete. Here is an update on the path to a new standard.