9. “
badge |baj|
noun
a distinctive emblem worn as a mark of
office, membership, achievement, licensed
employment, etc.: name badges | a Girl
Scout badge.
— The New Oxford American Dictionary
20. OB Background
■ Learners are learning everywhere
– But most of that learning doesn’t
“count”.
■ Skills assessment and communication
is limited in current system.
■ Few alternatives to the current
accreditation/credentialing system.
21. OB Goals
■ Develop badges as an alternative
(micro-)accreditation/(micro-)credentialing
system.
■ Avoid silos. Support badges from multiple
issuers across the web.
■ Optimize value: make badges remixable and
shareable with different audiences/sites.
■ Develop an open and decentralized
supporting infrastructure to give learners
control of the entire ecosystem.
26. OBI ecosystem
AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING
ISSUERS DISPLAYERS
BADGE
EDUCATION API API BLOG
PROVIDERS BACKPACK
METADATA METADATA
FACEBOOK
ORGANIZATIONS
✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIO
WEBSITES
Independent and agnostic. Outside of Open Badge Infrastructure
✔ Users consents to accept badges into backpack & send to website for display
Source: wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
27. Issuers
■ Organization, consortium or individual
who issues badges into the OBI.
■ Issuer issues a badge on their site, then
prompts the Badge Earner to push the
badge into their Backpack.
■ Issuer badge systems are independent
of the Infrastructure.
28. []
ORG ASSESSMENT
ME
ACCREDITATION
CREDENTIALS } OBI
31. Badge Earner
■ A person storing their badges within
the OBI.
■ The Earner has interactions with
Issuers to earn badges, then can
manage and share the badges in their
Backpack out to various Display sites.
■ Learners are a type of Badge Earners.
32. Badge Backpack
■ An authorized data storage plus a
management interface (control, share)
for Earners.
■ Open source and federated – anyone
can take the code and fork it.
■ Mozilla is building a reference or default
Backpack.
33. Badge
■ A single credential demonstrating a
skill, achievement, quality or affiliation.
■ More than a static image or button: its
value comes from the information or
metadata attached to it.
34. Badge – inside
■ A JSON blob of metadata embedded in
a PNG file (“Badge Baking”).
‣ Easily portable, an actual “thing” that
can be emailed around carrying all
the information with it.
‣ Important for decentralization, so that
Earners have more control.
35. Badge – metadata
■ Who issued the badge.
■ The issue date.
■ How the badge was earned.
■ Hyperlinks back to artifacts,
documents, or testimonials
demonstrating the work that lead to
earning the badge.
■ Authentication back to the issuer.
36. Verification
■ “Did the Issuer issue this badge?”,
“Is it still valid or has it expired?”, etc.
■ Verification happens between the
Displayer and the Issuer.
■ Hosted Assertions: metadata points to
a URL that the Displayers can ping.
■ In the future OBI will support Signed
Assertions.
37. Displayers
■ Display of badges is where a significant
part of the value lies: badges are not
siloed or stuck within one site.
■ Earner controls through the Backpack
where badges are displayed.
■ Earners can also make badges public
and discoverable through the Earner’s
email address.
38. Identity
■ Identity is a critical part of the OBI.
■ Identity needs to be open and
decentralized.
■ How? Persona, fka BrowserID.
browserid.org wiki.mozilla.org/Identity
‣ People understand email address
■ They don’t understand OpenID
39.
40.
41. Conclusions (1)
■ Anyone can issue accreditations about
anything.
■ People can keep their own backpacks
full of credentials.
‣ Access & display control.
‣ Attached to detailed accreditation
info and evidence.
‣ Linked back to issuers.
42. “
Compared with the new open
badge systems, the standard
college transcript looks like a
sad and archaic thing.
— The Chronicle of Higher Education
43. Conclusions (2)
■ OBI as an open infrastructure for
presentation portfolios.
■ OBI separates the credentialing and
teaching functions of higher education.
■ What about assessment?
44. “
…no one is paying sufficient
attention to the gap between
learning anything anywhere (OER)
and receiving a recognition (OBI)
– this gap is called “assessment.”
— David Wiley
45. “
…many in the field are overlooking
the place where badges make the
most sense of all – the formal
higher education institution.
— David Wiley
46. Moodle & Mahara
■ Totara Learning Solutions will be
developing an Open Badges solution
for Moodle and Mahara.
‣ Moodle as Issuer.
‣ Mahara as Displayer.
47. OBI ecosystem
AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING
ISSUERS DISPLAYERS
BADGE
EDUCATION API API BLOG
PROVIDERS BACKPACK
METADATA METADATA
FACEBOOK
ORGANIZATIONS
✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIO
WEBSITES
Independent and agnostic. Outside of Open Badge Infrastructure
✔ Users consents to accept badges into backpack & send to website for display
Source: wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
48. OBI ecosystem
AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING
ISSUERS DISPLAYERS
BADGE
EDUCATION API API BLOG
PROVIDERS BACKPACK
METADATA METADATA
FACEBOOK
ORGANIZATIONS
✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIO
WEBSITES
Independent and agnostic. Outside of Open Badge Infrastructure
✔ Users consents to accept badges into backpack & send to website for display
Source: wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
49. OBI ecosystem
AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING
ISSUERS DISPLAYERS
moodle
EDUCATION API
BADGE
API BLOG
PROVIDERS BACKPACK
METADATA METADATA
FACEBOOK
ORGANIZATIONS
✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIO
WEBSITES
Independent and agnostic. Outside of Open Badge Infrastructure
✔ Users consents to accept badges into backpack & send to website for display
Source: wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
50. OBI ecosystem
AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING
ISSUERS DISPLAYERS
moodle
EDUCATION API
BADGE
API BLOG
PROVIDERS BACKPACK
METADATA METADATA
FACEBOOK
ORGANIZATIONS
✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIO
WEBSITES
Independent and agnostic. Outside of Open Badge Infrastructure
✔ Users consents to accept badges into backpack & send to website for display
Source: wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
51. OBI ecosystem
AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING
ISSUERS DISPLAYERS
moodle
EDUCATION API
BADGE
API BLOG
PROVIDERS BACKPACK
METADATA METADATA
FACEBOOK
ORGANIZATIONS
✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIO
WEBSITES
mahara
Independent and agnostic. Outside of Open Badge Infrastructure
✔ Users consents to accept badges into backpack & send to website for display
Source: wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
52. Details
■ Integration with Moodle’s Activity and Course completion
functionality.
■ Certificate module will dispense Open Badge PNG
instead of PDF files.
■ Badges will be stored in Moodle and can also be
downloadable by users once they have earned them.
■ A web service will provide badge authenticity verification.
■ New blocks for Moodle and Mahara will display badges
on users' profiles pages.
■ Use of Moodle Portfolio API to push badges
automatically to Mahara.
53. OBI Tech Overview
■ Issuer API
■ Displayer API
■ Verification API
■ Endorsement API
■ Metadata Specification
■ Reference Implementation
54. OBI 2012 Roadmap
Q1 OBI Beta ✓
Q2 Website
Q3 Research and Planning for 1.0
Q4 OBI 1.0