Megan Torrance
CEO, TorranceLearning
Megan Torrance is the CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, where she leads a team of learning experience designers & engineers in reimagining workplace learning. Her firm has served Fortune 1000 companies, major research universities, global professional associations, and federal agencies for over two decades. Megan brings a strategic vision that helps TorranceLearning bridge vision with execution—delivering innovative, data-informed, and learner-centered solutions.She is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers, Data & Analytics for Instructional Designers, and Making Sense of xAPI and serves as a Facilitator for eCornell’s leadership programs and an adjunct instructor in Penn State’s Learning Design & Technology Master’s program.
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2019: The State of xAPI Adoption
Megan Torrance uses survey data to assess the current state of xAPI adoption and the differing perspectives among non-adopters, adopters, and providers.
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Agile Project Team Leaders Need ‘Sense-and-Respond’ Approach
An Agile project team leader needs to be flexible and excel at change management.
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Leadership Roles Key to Adopting Agile Project Management
Leadership roles on Agile Project Management teams differ from those on software development teams in key ways that relate to special L&D challenges.
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4 Creative Ways to Send xAPI Data from Non-eLearning Sources
It’s possible to extract xAPI data from almost anywhere—including a training roster, a survey, and even a door!
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Building xAPI-Enabled Ecosystems Requires Strategic Choices
Moving to an xAPI-enabled ecosystem makes it possible to capture and use an enormous amount of data on learners’ activities and experiences.
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Best Practices for Strategic Integration of xAPI with Your LMS
The Experience API (xAPI) may hold the key to understanding learners’ performance. This white paper explores xAPI and its potential for learning and development.
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‘Geek-Free’ xAPI Captures Rich Data in Any ID Model
Instructional designers who see how xAPI captures rich data—regardless of instructional design model—may decide they’re ready to make the switch.
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Is xAPI Ready? If So, Where Are Our Flying Cars?
Adopting xAPI is a significant decision; is xAPI ready to take its place as the foundation of a learning ecosystem? Get answers to your questions here.
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Getting Started with xAPI: Take a Hike with an Expert
All fired up about xAPI? Maybe you were at an xAPI Camp at a Guild conference, read a blog post, or checked out some demos, and you’re eager to dive in. It’s like having a new, shiny piece of equipment, and you’re just itching to find a reason to use it. Well, then, let’s get you started!
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Agile Learner Personas for Instructional Design
The mantra of all IDs is “design for the learner,” not “design for the demographic statistics.” Putting a name and face (well, almost) to the stats makes it much easier to understand what the learners will really need. And that’s the point of creating personas as part of instructional design. What’s a persona? This article explains the what, why, and how of personas.
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