Steve Foreman
President, InfoMedia Designs
Steve Foreman is the author of The LMS Guidebook and president of InfoMedia Designs, a provider of eLearning infrastructure consulting services and technology solutions to large companies, academic institutions, professional associations, government, and military. Steve works with forward-looking organizations to find new and effective ways to apply computer technology to support human performance. His work includes enterprise learning strategy, learning and performance ecosystem solutions, LMS selection and implementation, learning-technology architecture and integration, expert-knowledge harvesting, knowledge management, and innovative performance-centered solutions that blend working and learning.
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Establish an xAPI Infrastructure: Guide to Gain Sponsorship & IT Support
The xAPI can transform the enterprise and ultimately impact many aspects beyond training. If the technology-based training project you are pitching to your sponsor is also your first venture into the xAPI, getting approval may be a bit more complicated. This guide walks you through the steps, including those needed to get the support of your IT department.
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Learning and Performance Ecosystems: Strategy, Technology, Impact, and Challenges
This paper explores learning and performance ecosystems from conceptual, technological, cultural, and managerial perspectives, and examines how this framework will dramatically impact the ways in which we learn and work.
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Five Things a Web Developer Needs to Know About the xAPI
The xAPI will likely not be a familiar component to web designers, yet web designers are the experts that instructional designers must call on to execute their xAPI designs. This article is an instructional designer’s go-to document for explaining the xAPI to a web designer.
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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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Predictive Analytics: Anticipating Your Next Move
When you really think about it, it is strange that businesses continue to rely on learning metrics that merely indicate whether an individual completed and passed, completed and failed, or did not complete training. Analytics provide boundless opportunities for us to collect and use much more meaningful data. Here is the basic information you need in order to get started!
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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.
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The xAPI and the LMS: What Does the Future Hold?
Traditional learning management systems (LMSs) have not been useful in managing learning that happens during workplace activity, such as coaching and work assignments. The Experience API (also called “Tin Can” or “xAPI”) integrates learning and working. This final part of Steve’s series on LMSs explores the relationship between the LMS and the xAPI, and explains how the xAPI works.
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LMS Operation and Governance: Taming the Beast
Is your existing LMS becoming an L-M-MESS? When you installed your LMS, you expected it might grow and change—and you were right. Only now it may have turned into a beast, with everything from outdated courses to spam-like email notifications. Sound familiar? If so, you will want to read this installment in Steve’s series!
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The Six Proven Steps for Successful LMS Implementation (Part 2 of 2)
What does successful LMS implementation require? These projects can involve significant investments of time, money, and planning, and there is a proven process for success. This article completes the steps in the process that many organizations have followed for successful implementation efforts.
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The Six Proven Steps for Successful LMS Implementation (Part 1 of 2)
What does successful LMS implementation require? These projects can involve significant investments of time, money, and planning. In this series, you will find a complete outline of the steps in the process that many organizations have followed for successful implementation efforts.