[2] ADL issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) asking for assistance with updating the SCORM specification.
[4] xAPI-enabled learning activities generate statements, or records of e-learning in the form of "I did this" or "Actor verb object".
The main function of an LRS is to store and retrieve the data that's generated from Experience API statements.
[8] LRSs offer the ability to create very in-depth e-learning analytics because of the large amounts of learning data they record and store.
Traditional e-learning specifications like SCORM are limited to storing simple data points such as a final score, or that a course has been started or completed.