Nick Washburn
Chief Product Officer, 5th Logic
Nick Washburn, Chief Product Officer at 5th Logic, has over 15 years of experience working with high-tech entrepreneurs, in distance learning, and for some of the world’s top brands. Nick is a member of the workgroup that created the Experience API (xAPI), and he continues to work in and be involved in research and development for xAPI/LRS strategies for today’s learning enterprise. Since 2005, Nick has led the development of award-winning distance learning solutions used by the Fortune 50/500 and US Department of Defense.
Latest from Nick Washburn
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LRS Conformance: A Call to Action for Industry and Academia
Today, most business enterprise functions quantify their very existence with data. Compared to them, the training function is in the Stone Age. On April 12, ADL released the LRS Conformance Test Suite. Conformance and certification are critical steps in moving xAPI technology into L&D practice. For organizations that are not ready, the consequences will be disruptive.
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xAPI Camp Recap: Learning Solutions 2017, Orlando
xAPI Camps offer a day-long immersive experience around the Experience API. Intended to help participants understand the totality of what is possible with xAPI, the camps meet the needs of beginners and experts alike. Here’s a summary of the xAPI Camp held at Learning Solutions 2017 in March!
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London + xAPI + Bar = London xAPI Barcamp
Earlier this month, the sold-out London xAPI Barcamp packed the reserved meeting space of the Britannia Pub in Kensington with almost 60 people. The list of speakers participating in the Barcamp was a veritable who’s who in xAPI today. It was kind of like speed dating for xAPI, and it worked!
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Convert Effective Instructor-led Training to Captivating eLearning
Learning and behavior scientists at the University of Southern California are finding new ways to digitize effective live training, keeping it captivating when blended into distance learning. A case study of one of their programs, undertaken for the US Army, is summarized in this article.
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Remote HTML5 and xAPI Can Work with Your LMS
Remotely viewing and tracking learning events while using an LMS to build and manage curriculums is becoming a more frequent real-world requirement for many designers and developers. Unfortunately, not all LMSs are “friendly” to learning event types that happen outside the LMS. This article shows you a way to overcome these situations.
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Gamification, Social Collaboration, xAPI Technologies, and Sales-Training Success
Gamification has become a very effective strategy and is now more than just a catchphrase. However, the word itself doesn’t mean much without any implementation specifics. Here is an example of how gamification and xAPI technology solved a sales-training challenge for airlines.
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Extend the Enterprise Learning Ecosystem with a Centralized LRS
Data narratives and more can come from a centralized learning record store (LRS) database using the Experience API (xAPI). New technologies and specifications like xAPI are proving to be valuable in a number of diverse enterprise case studies. The article includes a comprehensive list of current and coming activity around and about xAPI.
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xAPI Camp Chicago Recap: Medical Education and Experience API
The latest xAPI Camp met in Chicago recently. Here is a quick summary with links to some of the case studies, and a special note at the end of the article about xAPI events at DevLearn, including xAPI Central, where you can meet the movers and shakers in xAPI!