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Defining Tin Can and Experience API, or xAPI

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Defining Tin Can and Experience API, or xAPI

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Well, as we've learned so far, SCORM has been the standard specification for publishing, launching, and tracking Elearning since the late nineties, and it continues to be the dominant standard in E-learning today. But SCORM has its limitations. As learning continues to explode out of the classroom and is becoming more informal, social, and mobile, it needs to be managed when there may be no class rosters and no registrations or completions to count. So, SCORM is kind of constrained at tracking specific, course-oriented things, like lesson pages viewed, and test scores, and module completions. SCORM also relies on JavaScript, which makes it difficult to implement in mobile apps. This is where the next generation of SCORM enters the picture. In 2011, a company named Rustici Software received a contract to come up with a new standard. They called the project "Tin Can" as they went through the R&D phase, but they released this new standard in April 2013 under the official name…

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