Dear Instructional Designer

Episode 21: Interview with Craig Wiggins

Episode Summary

In this awesome, anchoring conversation for Season 2, Craig Wiggins, major xAPI advocate and all around great guy, talks with us about how we can get back to the real root of instructional design, crafting solutions to performance problems, and how the xAPI encourages us to break out of our perhaps subtle, unconscious coupling of instructional design with elearning.

Episode Notes

In this awesome, anchoring conversation for Season 2, Craig Wiggins, major xAPI advocate and all around great guy, talks with us about how we can get back to the real root of instructional design, crafting solutions to performance problems, and how the xAPI encourages us to break out of our perhaps subtle, unconscious coupling of instructional design with elearning.

*Just a note: Craig has recently left ADL and is on to a new adventure!

Listen in to learn more about what the xAPI is and how using it could affect the focus and the competencies you need in your work as an instructional designer.

##Get to Know Craig##

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/oxala75
• Elearning Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/elearning

##Recommended Reading##

• SCORM to TLA Roadmap: http://adlnet.github.io/SCORM-to-TLA-Roadmap/
• Five Things a Web Developer Needs to Know About the xAPI: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1526/five-things-a-web-designer-needs-to-know-about-the-xapi
• Ten Steps to Plan and Communicate Your xAPI Design to a Web Developer: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1523/ten-steps-to-plan--communicate-your-xapi-design-to-a-web-developer
• Establish an xAPI Infrastructure: Guide to Gain Sponsorship & IT Support: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1582/establish-an-xapi-infrastructure-guide-to-gain-sponsorship--it-support
• xAPI and Analytics: Measuring Your Way to Success: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1722/xapi-and-analytics-measuring-your-way-to-success
• ISD? Business Process Engineer? Or Both?: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1745/are-you-an-isd-a-business-process-engineer-or-both
• eLearning Authoring: Taking the Next Step with xAPI: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1766/elearning-authoring-taking-the-next-step-with-xapi

##If You Have More Time##

• ADL Website https://www.adlnet.gov/
• ADL Virtual World Sandbox for creating 3D Simulations:
  https://www.adlnet.gov/adl-research/virtual-reality-games-simulations/virtual-world-sandbox/
• SOLAR Research on Learning Analytics: https://solaresearch.org/
• The Experience API—Liberating Learning Design: http://www.elearningguild.com/insights/index.cfm?id=177&action=viewonly
• Craig's Super Secret Unofficial List of xAPI Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7Xk6sjfOpHqGdyUmx2DKyl9qeCXCq7XBXtVtgkqlGE/edit

##Cool Project Examples##

• Little Bits: http://littlebits.cc/
• xAPI in the Real World: https://vimeo.com/127010355
• Thingstitute xAPI example of Hospital/EMT staff:
  http://www.tryxapi.com/case-study/iot.html
• Reaper Project: http://www.tryxapi.com/case-study/reaper.html
• Ann Arbor Museum Project:
  http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1665/adventures-in-the-xapi-the-ann-arbor-hands-on-museum-project

##Get Involved##

• Learning xAPI Cohort:
  http://www.torrancelearning.com/2016/06/01/registration-open-for-the-fall-2016-xapi-learning-cohort/
• xAPI Communities of Practice:
  https://www.adlnet.gov/adl-research/performance-tracking-analysis/experience-api/xapi-community-of-practice-cop/
• GitHub Repositories: https://github.com/adlnet/
• xAPI Design Google Group:
  https://groups.google.com/a/adlnet.gov/forum/#!forum/xapi-design
  http://learnxapi.com/