Designing Beyond SCORM: What is the Tin Can API? Megan Bowe

1. Designing Beyond SCORM: What is the Tin Can API? Megan Bowe megan.bowe@tincanapi.com * @meganbowe • ASTD Philly • March 21, 2013

2. SCORM did one thing fairly well Course Did they finish? Did the pass? What was their score? How much time was spent? Four for you And, four for you ....and four for you LMS 3 LMS 1 LMS 2

3. A shared language to capture people’s experiences across contexts.

4. The Basics

5. I did this. Brian Miller experienced 'Java JAX RS · wordnik/swagger-core Wiki’ Brian Miller experienced 'A Comparison of Spring MVC and JAX-RS’ Tammy Rutherford experienced 'Questions I've Fielded on Tin Can API’ Megan Bowe attempted 'Js Tetris - Tin Can Prototype' Megan Bowe completed 'Js Tetris Level1’ with Score ‘780’ Megan Bowe liked 'Why I'm adopting Tin Can’ Tammy Rutherford shared ‘her business card’

6. Mobile

7. Simulations CC image by curimedia on flickr

8. Performance Support http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfKYqQ5Sosg

9. Offline and Long Running Content CC image by mikecogh on flickr

10. Security and Authentication CC image by AlexandreDulaunoy on flickr

11. SCORM and design CC image by minnesotahistoricalsocietyon flickr

12. How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers?

13. How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers? You have to make a course.

14. How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers? You have to make a course. The course can only tell you certain things. (duration, score, finished, passed)

15. How has SCORM constrained the imagination of designers? You have to make a course. The course can only tell you certain things. (duration, score, finished, passed) The course has to live in an LMS.

16. Just put the marbles in the box. CC image by minnesotahistoricalsocietyon flickr

17. Unleash your imagination

18. Intended to help employees locate products with the inventory system Inventory 101 CC image by wjlonien on flickr

19. The inventory system and LMS are completely separate systems Inventory 101 CC image by wjlonien on flickr

20. Everyone launched it once, completed it, and got a passing score Inventory 101 CC image by wjlonien on flickr

21. I have no idea if employees can, in fact, locate products more effectively now. Where’s the value? CC image by wjlonien on flickr

22. That’s not okay

24. Think in feedback loops

25. CC image by austingovella on slideshare

26. Credit is due

27. Going back to the inventory system

28. Starting. What’s the opportunity? What activities do you believe lead to what outcomes? What interactions can generate data that will inform your decisions? Where can you create loops and iteratively improve them?(should be many places)

29. Tin Can Tools Today CC image by felishumanus on flickr

30. Authoring Tools

31. Articulate Storyline outputs trackable content to iPads using Tin Can!

32. LMS and Content Delivery Platforms

33. Social collaboration in virtual classrooms

34. Proprietary game engine using spaced learning

35. Interactive digital textbooks

36. Training in virtual worlds

37. “Foursquare for learning” – check-in to learning events and share what you’ve learned.

38. Real-time classroom analytics

39. Moving to an LRS-centric architecture

41. Many Others - This is Happening

42. Questions?Comments?Concerns?Jokes? Megan Bowe megan.bowe@tincanapi.com @meganbowe http://tincanapi.com