I attended the xAPI Camp in Chicago on Friday, September 16, 2016 to learn about use cases in the medical community for xAPI. I was particularly interested because my company, Web Courseworks, will be speaking with the American College of Chest Physicians on November 15th at DevLearn. xAPI and the Learning Record Store is the eLearning community’s answer to recording informal or formal activities for big data calculations. Like the SCORM standard, it is supported and encouraged by the US Department of Defense.
My current impression is that xAPI is in “the pilot stage” of acceptance, although there’s an industry developing around it. Actual use cases, with relevant data, take some digging to find. Watch for our white paper on specific use cases coming in November. But for now, I’m going to review the sessions and the people who spoke at the xAPI camp.
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