412 What's In it for Me? Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for xAPI
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Thursday, October 22
xAPI can enable adaptive learning, provide rich insight into performance, and support mobile learning but many organizations struggle with how to get started. Stakeholders are not interested in technology for technology-sake. This session focuses on the benefits to stakeholders at different levels throughout the organization.
In this session we will discuss the key drivers for decision makers—from the C-suite to first-line supervisors. We will focus on the benefits and results that impact your stakeholder—not the underlying technology—to sell your xAPI project internally. This session will highlight common challenges to new learning technology purchases and guide participants around potential roadblocks. Case studies from successful implementations will be used to help paint a picture of xAPI benefits. Everyone will leave with a list of free and low-cost resources to get their first pilot project off the ground.
In this session, you will learn:
- The benefits that xAPI enabled projects can bring to the organization
- Motivators for stakeholders at different levels your organization
- Key challenges and responses to learning technology projects from various levels of management
- Ways to develop a pilot xAPI project with no or little external cost
- How to find free and low-cost resources for getting started with xAPI
Technology discussed:
MS PowerBI, LRS
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.
Duncan Welder
Director of Client Services
RISC
Duncan Welder is a director of client services for RISC. He is an educational
technology geek, having spent over 20 years implementing learning
management systems, domestically and abroad, to manage regulatory
compliance. As an xAPI evangelist with a career grounded in instructional
design and eLearning, Duncan has provided presentations to professional
organizations including the Connections Forum, The Learning Guild, and the
Association for Talent Development. Duncan is an active member of the
Houston ATD, currently serving as director of special interest groups.
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