Craig Wiggins
Community Manager, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative
Craig Wiggins is a senior instructional designer for Problem Solutions, through which he supports the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) as a community manager, particularly for the Experience API (xAPI) and other learning technologies. Craig has worked primarily to design and develop eLearning in the commercial, military, and US federal government contexts. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology and a masters of education degree in curriculum development.
Latest from Craig Wiggins
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eLearning Authoring: Taking the Next Step with xAPI
Authoring tools make it possible to create eLearning products, even by designers with no programming skills. These tools evolve constantly, but few of them have done much with the Experience API (xAPI). xAPI can do more than simply replicate SCORM’s tracking mechanisms. In this article, the authors offer new visions for xAPI that will create more effective and engaging online courses.
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Are You an ISD, a Business Process Engineer, or Both?
When human performance problems have their root causes in broken business processes, missing policies, inadequate standards, or poorly designed systems, training alone (including eLearning) may not be an effective solution. The Experience API can help in these cases. Here is a fictitious scenario that illustrates how to use xAPI to optimize the work environment.
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xAPI and Analytics: Measuring Your Way to Success
Applying xAPI and analytics to measure learning and work outcomes enables you to go beyond just front-end analysis to continuously analyze your learning and performance solution’s impact on business results. This approach enables you to adapt your learning and performance solutions in response to the ever-changing needs and priorities of the business. Read all about how to do this here!
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Ten Steps to Plan & Communicate Your xAPI Design to a Web Developer
To realize the full tracking potential of the xAPI in your instructional design, you will need to collaborate with a web developer who can manually code the xAPI statements. This article outlines 10 steps you can take to plan and communicate your xAPI design to a web developer!
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The Experience API—Liberating Learning Design
In this report, a panel of API experts explores how the Experience API allows flexible tracking of a virtually unlimited number of learning activities and experiences, and the opportunities this provides for practitioners.