xAPI (the Experience API, also known as Tin Can API) is an e-learning interoperability specification that captures learning experiences as actor-verb-object statements sent to a Learning Record Store. Unlike SCORM, it records learning that occurs outside a single course or platform, including informal, mobile and simulation-based activity. xAPI underpins rich learning analytics by providing a flexible, standardised data model.
Overview
- xAPI (the Experience API, also known as Tin Can API) is an e-learning interoperability specification that captures learning experiences as actor-verb-object statements sent to a Learning Record Store.
- Unlike SCORM, it records learning that occurs outside a single course or platform, including informal, mobile and simulation-based activity.
- xAPI underpins rich learning analytics by providing a flexible, standardised data model.
- It is modelled as a subclass of Education Technology within the spatial-computing domain.
Key aspects
- Metadata is a constituent or mechanism relevant to Xapi.
- Data Interoperability is a constituent or mechanism relevant to Xapi.
- Metadata is a constituent or mechanism relevant to Xapi.
Mechanisms
- Xapi enables Learning Analytics.
- Xapi is standardised in relation to Interoperability.
- Xapi is standardised in relation to Standards.
Applications
- Applied in contexts involving Learning Analytics.
- Applied in contexts involving Adaptive Learning.