Introductory high-level overview of Mozilla's OpenBadges technology. Presented at UW LTDC Face to Face meeting at UW Eau Claire October 2013

1. Open Badges:
Technical
Overview
R. John Robertson,
LTDC October 8, 2013

2. Technical Context
● What do you need to know?
● What questions do you need ask?

3. So what is a badge?
A png file
With ‘baked in’ json metadata

4. What can it contain?

5. The Metadata specification
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#E._Metadata_Spec

6. Technical Infrastructure

7. Technical Infrastructure
Issuing Platform
Backpack
Issue
Accept
and
Store
Display ‘Widget’
Display

8. Some Issuing Tools
BadgeOS - WordPress plugin
Credly - Web service
Purdue’s Passport - Platform/ BB add on
D2L - coming soon?
There are plenty of other tools and platforms

9. One example of use @ UW Oshkosh

10. Course progress in Passport

11. Bigger picture considerations
● How do we support users in displaying
badges?
● How does the technical choice fit into a the
wider framework?
○ can it support the intended use / purpose?
○ what triggers badge issuing for these activities?
● How does this fit with the wider technical /
standards arena? eg interaction with xApi

12. Links
Mozilla Open Badges
http://openbadges.org
Metadata Specification https://wiki.mozilla.
org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#E.
_Metadata_Spec