P10 Designing for Outcomes with xAPI
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Monday, October 23
Montego E
The Experience API has emerged as a tool to take learning programs to new levels of effectiveness. However, understanding xAPI is only the first step. In order to harness the potential of xAPI, you must alter your design process with xAPI in mind.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use xAPI to design for outcomes. After building a foundation on the fundamentals of xAPI, you will quickly work on setting up your first xAPI project. You will explore best practices for doing analytics work, including the tools and project approaches to consider. Throughout the day, you will explore case studies that will give you the context you need to apply xAPI in your organization.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the foundations of xAPI
- How to develop a plan for using xAPI
- How to leverage analytics in your design
- From case studies that explore common and exceptional use cases of xAPI
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, and learning
managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Experience API (xAPI).
Aaron Silvers
Manager, Analytics
Elsevier
Aaron E. Silvers helps teams achieve real-world outcomes with analytics strategies for high compliance, high accountability concerns. A common theme throughout his 20+ year career is an optimistic embrace of talent, emerging technology, and entrepreneurialism that charts learning & development paths towards measurable outcomes that scale.
Sean Putman
Vice President of Learning Development
Altair Engineering
Sean Putman, a partner in Learning Ninjas, has been an instructor, instructional designer, and developer for over 15 years. He has spent his career designing and developing training programs, both instructor-led and online, for many different industries, but he has had a strong focus on creating material for software companies. Sean has spent the last few years focusing on the use and deployment of the Experience API (xAPI) and its effect on learning interventions. He has spoken at industry conferences on the subject and is co-author of Investigating Performance, a book on using the Experience API and analytics to improve performance.
Megan Bowe
Partner—Data Strategy
MakingBetter
Megan Bowe, a partner in MakingBetter, is a learning technology product manager turned standards evangelist and data strategist. Championing data-driven design, Megan works on projects that require a bigger lens to bring learning, portability of data, and formative analysis into focus. At MakingBetter, Megan helps people design reporting, data strategy, and products. At Knewton, Megan managed APIs and integration strategies, bringing adaptivity into various learning applications. At Rustici Software, Megan helped to launch the Experience API. Megan is a founding member on the board of directors for the Data Interoperability Standards Consortium.
