What is the Experience API?
Experience API (xAPI) is a new learning technology specification that enables recording online and offline activities (experience) of people. API is the computer system capability for the performance of a function. With xAPI, this implies computer systems can safely record operational data using the xAPI-defined language.
There have been specifications (such as SCORM), but the xAPI is simple and maybe utilized on a larger system, not restricted to the online LMS. However, mobile learning, social learning, collaborative learning, and even offline learning can be incorporated.
How does the experience API work?
Students interact with the student, content, and others. This activity can occur anywhere and is recorded with xAPI.
When a job must be recorded, a part of the content (which implemented the xAPI spec) sends data in the form of a sentence to a learning record store, in the form of a "subject, verbe, object" or "I do it" (LRS).
The Learning Record Store records all phrases sent. LRS can share it with the IRS. Otherwise, LRS can either be an autonomous system or are in an LMS.
Advantage of Experience API
Freedom of the sentence activity structure that can be recorded.
LRS can offer the history of the experience.
Multi-device, no longer restricted to a desktop device but mobile devices. Learning should not start and end on LMS at any time.
LMS that supports the Experience API?
Some LMS large has started adopting xAPI, open-source and xAPI ready, i.e., Moodle, or if you want to try paid version is on SCORM Cloud.