John is joined by Megan Torrance, Chief Energy Officer of Torrance Learning, a custom development company based in Michigan USA. With an MBA from Cornell and a consultancy background, Megan has a firm grasp of the business value of learning initiatives. But her two decades of experience in learning technologies also includes a strong bent towards using data for learning. She is strong advocate for xAPI, and organizes the 'xAPI Party'. How does she feel about the slow rate of adoption of xAPI among learning departments?

0:00 – Intro
2:09 – How she leads Torrance Learning
6:03 – Normalising Data in L&D
10:42 – Current state of xAPI
15:17 – xAPI Examples
20:43 – Learning as a process
30:33 – Women in L&D
39:42 – How to follow her activities

The xAPI Party https://xapicohort.com/xapi-party/ Megan's work can be found at ATD: https://my.td.org/search?query=megan%20torrance and Learning Solutions https://learningsolutionsmag.com/author/megan-torrance Professional development workshops: http://www.torrancelearning.com/shop Contact Megan

Twitter: @MMTorrance
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megantorrance
Website: http://www.torrancelearning.com/

Contact John Helmer

Twitter: @johnhelmer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

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