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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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