how tin can api can bring us closer to personalized learning

Megan Bowe | Rustici Software | @meganbowe | #tincanapi September, 2013

Personalization, it can be adorable.

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There’s a standard for that.

activitystrea.ms

The Filter Bubble

Personalized learning experiences

Submarine!

Is that an enemy aircraft?

Not sure.

We have one minute to figure it

out

#TinCanAPI | TinCanAPI.com

Trying to remember that list of

enemy aircraft

characteristics from

training 6 months ago...

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“...due to inherent uncertainty in the performer’s task environment... training is insufficient to improve judgment performance. Here, performance can only be improved by enhancing the overall reliability of the proximally displayed information (e.g. by improving or adding sensor or display technology)”

Alex KirlikApadtive Perspectives on Human-Technology Interaction



Discuss.

If you could personalize any performance supports in your organization, today and without constraints, what would you make?


Interoperability



(quit looking so excited)



SCORM was cutein the 90s

It did one thing fairly wellSCORM Course

LMS 1 LMS 2 LMS 3

Four for you And,

four for you

....and four for

you

Did they finish?Did the pass?

What was their score?How much time was spent?



We’ve outgrown it.



A shared language to capture people’s experiences across contexts.



Cute sentence.

What does it mean?



Activity Statements Learning Record Store (LRS)

Actor | Verb | Object

and...

result, context, authority, activity, extensions

LRS

Tin Can Basics





and...


LRS

Tin Can Basics


Little pieces of data that

describe what the person

did.Megan read “Tropic of

Cancer”

John passed “Hazardous Material Handling 101”

Tool that collects all of the data

and makes it accessible to

other systems.




and...


LRS

Tin Can Basics



Games

LRS

LMS 1Simulator

s

Social Platfor

ms

LMS 2...and more

Mobile Application

s


Now, everyone’s invited to the party.

eBooks


LRS LRS

Application

Visualization or

Reporting Interface

Visualization or

Reporting Interface

LRS’ share and receive, without knowing what’s coming.


Application

Sta

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ts

Sta

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ts



Time Out.

Questions?



What’s happening today?



Little Feedback Loops.

Exercise

Skill

Assess Ability

Suggest

Building

Block



Giving classrooms the tools to make sense of activity data



Support learning in real time, at the students level

Student plays a game of

math bingo

Teacher sees

struggle with 7s

Assigns learning

activity on adding 7s



Personally and contextually relevant training

Compliance

Onboarding


Questions?Comments?NSA Jokes?

Megan BoweRustici [email protected]@meganbowe

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