Considered the next generation of SCORM, Tin Can APIs (application programming interfaces) are also referred to as Experience API. Tin Can APIs are standards that define how informal learning activities are tracked and measured by learning record stores (LRS). Tin Can API uses a simple sentence convention of actor, verb, object, to identify a learner’s activity; for example: “John-Read-Article,” or “Sue-completed-leadership training.”

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