If you’re planning to attend ASTD International Conference and Expo 2013 in Dallas, TX next week (5/19-5/22) and you’re curious about how your organization can begin taking advantage of the Tin Can API, come visit us at booth 577. We’d love to meet you and imagine together how your organization can benefit from a Tin Can-enabled approach. If you build tools for the training community, we’re happy to explore how you can add Tin Can support to your applications.

So, come find us!

We’ll be in Booth 577 in the Expo Hall. Andy, Tammy and I will be holding down the fort there.

If you’re looking for something to do on Tuesday night, join us at the Magnolia Hotel from 5:30 to 7:30pm. We are hosting a birds of a feather gathering with Float Mobile Learning. If you want to come chat measurement and mobile with us, you can find more info and RSVP here.

Tin Can API sessions and panels

Tin Can Case Studies for a Brave New World – M111
Mon, May 20 | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Megan Bowe

Everything You Need to Know About the Experience API (“Tin Can”) – M305
Mon, May 20 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Megan Bowe, Julie Dirksen, Jason Haag, Clark Quinn, Aaron Silvers

Designing Beyond SCORM: What Is the Tin Can API? – TU101
Tue, May 21 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Tim Martin

As you can see, ASTD ICE is going to be full of Tin Can goodness. We hope to see a bunch of you there!

Get ready — Mike ordered a fancy new headset so he’ll sound pristine on our two upcoming webinars!

Some people learn better from live interaction than from reading a webpage or a white paper — that’s one reason that we like webinars. We have these two coming up:

• May 21st, Noon-1pm, CDT. Mike will be joining some of the top “Tin Canners” on a panel hosted by the Brandon Hall Group. They’ll be talking about why Tin Can exists, how it’s different from older standards, the current evolution of Tin Can, who is using it and how, and the future of Tin Can. You can register for this webinar here.
• June 11th, 1:00p-2:00pm, CDT. Mike will be presenting “Rethinking Learning Systems with the Tin Can API”. Join in and learn about Learning Record Stores, Training Delivery Systems (that’s a new one), the role of the LMS in a Tin Can world, and a lot more. You can register for this webinar here.

Come and join in if you can, and if you can’t, we’ll be posting the recordings, slides, and the answers to your questions just like we always do.

Yes, the 1.0 specification release is today. And yes, all of our tools support it right now. We’ve spent a long time building towards this so that you did not have to wait a single moment for your gratification.

Need an LRS? SCORM Cloud is ready.
Need to make statements? Our Javascript open source library is updated to 1.0.
Would you rather use the statement generator? Go right ahead!
Want to play with prototypes? Tetris, golf, and the museum tour are ready. So is the public sandbox.

Game on.

The floodgates are open. It’s time to celebrate. The Tin Can API, version 1.0, is here today.

It was almost three years ago when ADL asked the e-learning community to help them with research to create a new, simpler, more powerful e-learning standard. E-learning standards are what we do, so of course we jumped at the opportunity.

The result was Project Tin Can, which resulted in the Tin Can API. We wrote the first version of the API, version 0.8, then handed it over to ADL and a vibrant open community.
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I did a webinar for HR.com on April 15th. As usual, the attendees had more questions than could be answered in the allotted time, so I’ve taken posted the questions and answers here.

Q: I love the concept, and would like to break out of the LMS confines and track other external content, but not sure how/where to start

We hear this question a lot. There is so much that Tin Can offers, implementing all of the possibilities is a daunting task. Fortunately it’s easy to start small. In every organization we’ve worked with, it has been easy to identify 3-6 pilot projects that are small in scope, but provide a big impact and lots of visibility. Take on a mobile learning project, or incorporate a game into your training program. Find an area where you can easily measure business performance and correlate training data with improved performance. Consolidate data from several LMS’s into a LRS, or use a TDS to deliver training from anywhere. Feel free to give us a call, we’re happy to help brainstorm the possibilities.
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