The Experience API (xAPI) allows us to collect data about any type of learning experience or activity, but does that mean we should? Should we generate massive amounts of xAPI data for every possible type of interaction and then expect to make sense of it all later? This approach can be costly in terms of data storage, but also in terms of your time.
For about 10 years, from 2005 – 2015, much of the discussion about tracking eLearning revolved around the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and learning management systems (LMS).