Tin Can API
The Tin Can project was launched in 2010 by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative as a further development of the SCORM standard. From around 2015, the project specified the Experience API (xAPI) , which allows learning content and learning systems (LMS) to exchange information with one another in order to be able to record a wide variety of data and learning activities. they are recorded in a Learning Record Store (LRS). LRSs can be integrated into existing or traditional Learning Management Systems (LMSs) or are independent.
Summary
SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is the de facto e-learning standard for delivering e-learning content in LMSs or exchanging it between LMSs. There are, however, restrictions. The xAPI offers various new possibilities that SCORM did not have:
- E-learning outside of web browsers
- E-learning in mobile applications
- Greater control over e-learning content
- Increased security with OAuth
- Switching between platforms (start e-learning on a mobile device and finish on a PC)
- The ability to capture learning experience within games and simulations
- The possibility of recording learning experience or everyday performance
- Team-based e-learning
- Tracking learning plans and goals
The xAPI is an open source API. The API is a web service designed according to the principles of a Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture that uses JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the data format. The web service enables software clients, such as web browsers or smartphone applications, to write data from learning experiences to or read from an LRS system: in the simplest form as "I did this" or more generally as "Author activity Object". However, much more complex learning experiences can also be exchanged.
history
In 2010 the ADL Initiative, the controlling body of SCORM, saw the need for a newer and more versatile software specification.
ADL issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA, which is the standard for research awards for American authorities) to help improve SCORM. The research award went to Rustici Software , which through its Scorm activities is already one of the leading software companies for data exchange in the e-learning market. Rustici Software then carried out various surveys of the participants and associations in e-learning in order to determine which are the most important factors to be improved and to develop an initial specification as a research basis. This research project was called Project Tin Can.
The Tin Can API is still under development after version 1.0.0. There are well over 50 companies, especially the major LMS vendors, using these specifications (May 3, 2013).
Current version
The Tin Can API is currently at version 1.0.3.
Web links
- Experience API at ADL with the technical specifications
- Github repository of the specification
- Experience API at Rustici Software
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bill Brandon: Making History: mLearnCon 2012 Rocks Attendees . In: Making History: mLearnCon 2012 Rocks Attendees . Learning Solutions Magazine. Archived from the original on August 6, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d Justin Brusino: THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCORM: A Q&A WITH AARON SILVERS . In: THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCORM: A Q&A WITH AARON SILVERS . American Society for Training and Development. Archived from the original on August 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ^ Andy Whitaker: An Introduction to the Tin Can API . In: An Introduction to the Tin Can API . The training business. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Saltbox Developers Discuss Tin Can . In: Saltbox Developers Discuss Tin Can . Float mobile learning. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ↑ a b eLogic Learning Partners with Rustici Software to be an Early Adopter of the Next Generation of SCORM Standards Known as the 'Tin Can API' . In: eLogic Learning Partners with Rustici Software to be an Early Adopter of the Next Generation of SCORM Standards Known as the 'Tin Can API' . SFGate. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ↑ Amit Gautam: Tin Can: My First Impressions From mLearnCon 2012 . In: Tin Can: My First Impressions From mLearnCon 2012 . Upside learning. Archived from the original on August 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Downes: I Want This: Tin Can Plans, Goals and Targets . Archived from the original on July 24, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
- ^ Jeff Tillett: Project Tin Can - The Next Generation of SCORM . In: Project Tin Can - The Next Generation of SCORM . Float mobile learning. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ^ ADL Project Tin Can Research Summary . In: ADL Project Tin Can Research Summary . Advanced distributed learning. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
- ↑ Tin Can API: Current Adopters . In: TinCanAPI.com . Rustici software. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
- ↑ Newest version of xapi version 1.0.3. Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, September 21, 2016, accessed December 2, 2019 .
