The Experience API (xAPI) is a specification describing how activity records are authored in order to be collected in a learning record store. It was developed in 2013 by the U.S. government standards group Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). According to this article, IEEE will be converting xAPI into a standard, much as it did for Learning Object Metadata (LOM) and various other standards. This is generally seen as a Good Thing, however, I note that when IEEE develops these standards it takes them out of the public domain and clamps them down behind a paywall. However, "the new xAPI v2.0 standard will also be IEEE's first open source standard, using a new process intended to expand opportunities for dynamic collaborations to accelerate the development and promulgation of technical standards." So, good. Related: Datasim, using xAPI.
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