Experience API – The game-changer in online learning

Experience API – The game-changer in online learning

Training needs to be an integral and integrated part of any organization ecosystem.  It can be extremely rewarding  to an entire business, including its clients and customers. Performance-based training should be treated as a yardstick that can measure each employee’s job performance, past learning success, projected output, and tasks to be executed in order to achieve a certain business objective.

There are several benefits to be derived from a performance-based training approach. Using performance-based training to onboard new hires and to reskill the existing workforce can lead to longer employee retention. It can boost motivation within employees, lead to higher productivity, and in turn boost customer satisfaction and better returns.

Experience API – xAPI

xAPI has been transforming learning programs by providing a more nuanced opportunity to understand how people engage with blended learning experiences. It is a great way to measure the effectiveness of learning programs by connecting the learning experiences of employees with their job performance.

The xAPI enables personalization, recording, tracking, and improving learning activity. It can make training experiences holistic and effective if implemented in a planned manner.

Some use cases showcasing the benefits can be categorized as below:

• Making the training engaging and exciting:
  • Gamified and simulation-based learning
  • Creating leader boards on learner performance
  • Provide game and simulation analytics on learner performance.
• Making the training Adaptive:
  • Capture learner performance and respond with an adequate learning pathway

• Measuring the training outcomes
  • Assessments
  • Capturing end-user feedback
  • Time to competence

• Help improve company and business outcomes:
  • Link L&D performance and talent management
  • Training to improve sales performance by linking and deriving data from the company’s CRM system

In a nutshell, xAPI is an effective tool in ensuring that companies are armed with the right matrix in order to implement a performance-based training approach.

 – By Gautam Mehra, Key Accounts Manager at MPS Interactive Systems