For Learning Technology ProvidersHow to Grow Your Business with VisCa

Visualize xAPI Data, Catch Learning Analytics

Jessie Chuang

VisCa is a Learning Record Store(LRS) with highly designed visualizations and

analytics modules for Experience API (xAPI) data. VisCa is developed to work

with learning technology or content providers to solve data silos problem.

What’s VisCa?

What Can You Do with VisCa?

● Build data and analytics feedback

loops to improve product designs,

● Serve instructors and learners for

data-driven decision making and

actions.

● Visualizations can be embedded

into products, contents, customized

dashboards for different purposes,

● Developers can build add-on

functionalities or applications on

top of VisCa through open API.

Step 1 - Consultative Meeting with UsIdentify business goals

Identify relevant process metrics

Identify use cases

Identify user behaviors

XAPI recipes design

Identify or design workflow and data flow integration if needed

Visualization/analytics design (also consider working with all other data)

Step 2 - xAPI Implementation Follow xAPI recipes designed for your product to implement them

Resources:

● Open source tools from ADL: http://adlnet.github.io/#xapi

● VisCa developer doc.: http://www.visualcatch.org/visca/web/wiki/index.jsp

● xAPI Technical Specification (a diagram of statement objects)

Step 3 - Hook Them UpSend xAPI data to Visca

Verify visualizations and analytics work as expected => debug

Verify workflows and data flow work well => debug

XAPI data

Whenever K fails practice

A in Hong Ding, VisCa

will notify 1Know

Assessment and practice service

Light Learning Management System: 1Know

1Know pushes a helpful

video or resource link to K

This is K

XAPI data

Whenever K

finishes watching

video B, VisCa will

notify Hong Ding

Hong Ding pushes an

appropriate practice

set to K

Feedback

Request

Interact ..

A Simple Example...

Learning Planning

Activity/Agent Profile API

IRS, Quiz service

Integration of Workflow and Data flow *Adaptive design*Branches/options

Videos or MOOC platform

Mobile AppsIoTWearableARVR ...

Real behavior data sent to Game/ Gamification/ 3rd platforms for rewards

Step 4 - Let VisCa Work for You and LearnersShow learners/instructors their integrated learning patterns, progress and how to

improve… From Data Silos to Data Literacy (#xAPI)

Connect learners with helpful resources (people, content, activity)

Improve your product design according to granular usage records and metrics

continuously….

Prove the value of your product with hard evidences!

Step 5 - Partner Up MoreGive instructors/learners more support and options with more complementary

partners, by partnering up through xAPI data layer with interoperable data

formats and competency standards.

In this way you provide learning opportunities outside boxes, but users have

seamless workflow and data flow. New ways to utilize your products will grow!

Developers, Are You Part of Learning Big Data Innovations? (#xAPI)

Partner B’s user base

Partner A’s user base

Step 6 - Grow Up User Base through PartnershipBetter integration can:

● Build stronger

partnership,

● Offer better user

experience,

● Grow user base through

sharing user base.

Your user base

Step 7 - Know Your Learners Well, Serve Them BetterEven before a learner starts to use your product, you can know them well

through accessing xAPI document API. (with user’s permission)

● Competencies

● Preferences

● Interests

● Habits

● Social connections

VisCa keeps adding more

analytics capability !

Users build up data literacy, and data-driven decision making culture; they

improve their performances and efficiency.

They recommend/request your product(s) and service(s). You grow customer

relationship and extend services through data analytics.

Step 8 - Your Business Grows and Innovates!

New ideas with

xAPI data layer ....

Congrats! You are part of emerging data practice...

Citation: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23265507.2015.1074870

Let’s get started!

More Reading

Reserve a meeting

Make Learning Big Data Work for You

Developers, Are You Part of Learning

Big Data Innovations? (#xAPI)

How #xAPI Enables Analyzing

Connected Learning Beyond the LMS

xAPI’s Potential in Games,

Gamification, and Augmented Reality