How xAPI Enables Analyzing Connected Learning Beyond the LMS
Channel: Jessie Chuang
Date: 21/12/2015

The Connected Learning Analytics toolkit aims to enable teachers to provide learning experiences “in the wild”. Rather than offering learning in a LMS, we obtain data about student engagement in carefully designed learning activities by interfacing with standard APIs for a range of online tools. The xAPI allows us to unify different data streams into one format and a controlled vocabulary across all platforms. Learner oriented learning analytics then helps us to encourage metacognition and reflection in our students about their own learning and social interactions. This talk provides an overview of the architecture, data structures and analytics that we currently use to leverage xAPI as a tool for enabling connected learning beyond the LMS.