Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

According to this article, "The best way to learn about xAPI and discover what it can do for your organization is to jump in and create a project." This is true, I would content, of pretty much everything. What I wish the authors had done was to point to a set of tutorials that would allow readers to do that. Some of the implementations mentioned - extracting xAPI data from a Unity 3D game, generating xAPI statements from Amazon Alexa skills, capturing learning data from Vimeo, etc. - would be really good skills to learn. Alas, this article touts xAPI learning cohorts, where the cohorts break into teams, and where many participants choose not to do a cohort project. Isn't this what always happens in these learning projects? We know what the 'best way' is - but in practice, we dilute it, so we're pretending to learn, but not really learning. Ah, but I might sign up anyways. After all, it's free.

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