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Understanding LRS vs. LMS - SCORM Tutorial
From the course: Learning SCORM and Tin Can API
Understanding LRS vs. LMS
- So now we should understand how the next generation of SCORM, Tin Can API, or Experience API allows for the tracking of all kinds of learning activities, not just courses and scores. It's not limited to the use of learning management systems. Quite often, xAPI will make use of an LRS, or Learning Record Store, for storing a learner's learning records. Here's how an LRS is different from an LMS. With xAPI, anything a learner does as part of a learning program, generates an xAPI activity statement. Could be starting an online course, completing a quiz, or things like attending a meeting, reading a document, and so on. Simply put, an LRS is the database where these xAPI activity statements, in other words their learning records, are stored for each individual learner. An LRS can easily be built right into an LMS, or it can be a standalone product as well. An LMS that has a built-in LRS supports the Experience API, and also does all the other things an LMS can do to manage the learning…
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