Moving your xAPI Data from one vendor’s LRS to another

There are many xAPI implementations that have been invested in over the last few years that for one reason or another are now in need of an update and you find that you need to move from one vendor’s LRS to another. But what do you do about all of that data that you’ve collected?

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Estimating the Cost of xAPI: Using Data Simulation to Budget Your Implementation

One of the most frustrating things about xAPI is that it is difficult to gauge how much an implementation is going to cost. In order to account for xAPI statement size, volume and throughput, and data design quality when pricing an xAPI solution, we recommend building a synthetic data set representative of the data that you expect to run through your system.

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xAPI Profiles: What You Need to Know

Whereas an xAPI data statement describes an action or activity, xAPI Profiles combine xAPI data statements to describe experiences. They are fundamental to unlocking the power of xAPI. And they are notoriously difficult to design. Fear not. We’ve designed a presentation to help you to understand how to design perfect xAPI Profiles.

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A Simple Way to Publish xAPI Statements from Unity

We recently wrapped up a project that offered teams building a dozen different Unity-based extended reality (XR) applications the ability to have engagement data from each application populate a mission-control style engagement dashboard in real time. So rather than one team / one dashboard, the goal here was all teams / one dashboard.

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Building Bridges: Learning Engineering and AI-enabled Intelligent Tutors

In the same way that Learning Engineering itself is developing into a sort of bridge between these disciplines in the pursuit of scaling meaningful and measurable learning experiences, likewise, as a data broker between the worlds of synthetic training and distributed learning analytics, GIFT serves as a sort of AI-enabled technological bridge.

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Extending the Total Learning Architecture into the World of Experiential Learning and Synthetic Training

With an objective to provide “a data strategy for measuring the longitudinal impact of synthetic, semi-synthetic, and live training experiences on individual and team competency development,” STEEL-R brings together a variety of standards-based capabilities from the world of synthetic scenario design with the core standards-based capabilities of ADL’s Total Learning Architecture (TLA).

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xAPI Profile Validation: Open Source Resources from Yet

Yet Analytics has released two new open source libraries for xAPI Profile validation. The first is called Pan and is used to validate xAPI Profiles. The second is called Persephone and is used to validate xAPI statements against xAPI Profiles. Both libraries are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

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