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Welcome to the Salava project!

Eric RousselleDiscendum Oy

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What is Salava?

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The Open Badge Passport community edition.

An open source project where the Open Badge Passport developed by Discendum is further developed by a community of developers, practitioners and users.

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About Open Badge Passport

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• A platform developed by Discendum as an outcome of the Open Badge Factory -project (2013 – 2015)

• An alternative to the Mozilla Backpack, but more than a repository

• A PLE and e-portfolio built from badges• A community where users can interact with their badges

(badges as connectors)• A service used by thousands of badge earners around

the world (68 countries)

Short presentation of the Open Badge Passport concept

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Why Salava?

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• Providing a service to the Open Badges community requires openness

• Salava creates an opportunity for users, practitioners and developers to contribute to the further development of the Open Badge Passport vision

• We want to “free” badges from the traditional credential’s carapace and explore how they can work as connectors and support learning communities

• We want to keep the concept simple and user friendly!

Behind the Salava project

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• Strong commitments to:• The Open Badge Factory and Open Badge

Passport users• The DML project (ADPIOS, Discendum, Omnia)• Open Badges community

What we have been doing?

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• Developing a new software written in Clojure and release under the permissive Apache 2.0 license

• Setting up the open community site: salava.org• Starting some collaboration with Clojure

developers• The first beta version of Salava will be released

in about two weeks

Two steps

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• Step 1: building the infrastructure and the code base (nearly completed)

• Step 2: Developing PLE / e-portfolio and community features– Communication– Connections between users– Badge earning / issuing features

Who can join the project and how?

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• Users, practitioners, developers, interface translators are welcome!

• If you don’t use Open Badge Passport yet, get an account and try it (it’s free!)

• All instructions are in the Salava.org site• Forum is the right place to start• Pull requests can be submitted in

Discendum/Salava github

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More information:

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• Open Badge Factory• Open Badge Passport• the Digital Media and Learning Trust Challenge• Salava.org

Thank you!

eric.rousselle@discendum.com@eric_rousselle

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