Profile Meeting 6/10

What design and development workflows could xAPI Profiles support?

10 June 2020, 3:00pm Eastern

Meeting Minutes

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Team

  • Host: Aaron Silvers

  • Community Manager/Secretary: Eva Rendle

  • Producer: Megan Bowe

Please join us for a discussion on the topic, “What design and development workflows could xAPI Profiles support?”

Attendees:

Avron Baar

Marcus Birtwhistle

Megan Bowe

Rob Chadwich

Tom Creighton

Kristi Eager

Tobi Echevarria

Baltasar Fernandez

Mark Grant

Viktor Haag

Andy Johnson

Chris Krepich

Eleni Mangini

Jono Poltrack

Eva Rendle

Aaron Silvers

Allyssa Thompson

Florian Tolk


Meeting Minutes

Revisiting the TAG xAPI Profile Objective:

Why are we having these talks?  An xAPI server is in development.

Objective is through regular, open discussions, participants will help identify enabling and/or disabling policies and practices, as well as technical considerations, in leveraging xAPI Profiles (from one or a network of xAPI Profile Servers).

•Exit Criteria:

TAGxAPI will submit an IEEE LTSC technical report for publication, documenting learnings from this series of discussions in Q3 2020 based on these conversations

The group so far has discussed the following topics:

  • What profiles are

  • Current state of what’s out there

  • Challenges of xAPIs and business perspective

  • What the spec does, what’s in the spec vs what it doesn’t do

Today’s discussion is: “What design and development workflows could xAPI Profiles support?”

Focusing on two specific workflows (microlearning and elearning), around content authoring workflows

  • xAPI Profiles can support content authoring by enabling a constrained set of choices available to developers and content authors to more likely do the best practices.

  • Depending on the type of content authoring, this can manifest in a few ways.

Design is limited depending on tools provided and mastery of tools

Advancing the tools can be a focus

Microlearning

H5P - out of the EU - java script components for learning

H5P.org

Interactives that are fully programmable

  • Each ”content type” in H5P is developed as a standalone activity

    • The activity is hard-coded to generate xAPI statements

    • These could be governed by an xAPI Profile for H5P.

    • These could be authored to generate the proper statement after associating concepts with the H5P activities.

    • What would this gain?

    • Abstracts the xAPI statement generation from the component, allowing for scalable maintenance with less re-work.

  • Would allow for custom mappings for domain-specific/context-specific data generation for domain/context-specific activities

Elearning Content Authoring Approaches 

Authoring tools with customization can support data that could be represented

  • Typically, each project in an eLearning authoring tool is considered a single piece of content.

  • Most eLearning authoring tools obfuscate any access to modify the xAPI features.

  • Some eLearning authoring tools allow for customizing xAPI statements.

  • Let’s look at the authoring tool that currently provides the most flexibility in how you make xAPI statements: DominKnow One

Demonstrated the DominKnow One User Interface

https://clarofy.com/showSteps/xAPI--Creating-a-custom-xAPI-statement-f48305bd


Interface that shows what tools in the market can already do

You can click on certain fields, etc

Determining Properties 

Could translate features that benefit authors

Kristi Eager question:  How does DominKnow handle things in Flow?

A: was just showing user interface of DominKnow for an example

Q:  could activity IDs be written into Profiles?

A: yes, there are use cases related to validating activities with technical citations, knowledge -management use cases where governance or compliance may need to be regulated. 

References & Source Material

  1. Today’s slides:https://1drv.ms/p/s!Av4nfZFOBTgagU34tq8bcd6AKm_-

  2. H5Phttps://h5p.org/

  3. Getting started with xAPI and DominKnow https://community.dominknow.com/showArticle/Getting-Started-with-xAPI-and-dominKnow---ONE-92f64ef9

Eva Rendle