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

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

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Open Badges: Technical Overview

R. John Robertson, LTDC October 8, 2013

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Technical Context

● What do you need to know?

● What questions do you need ask?

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So what is a badge?

A png fileWith ‘baked in’ json metadata

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What can it contain?

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The Metadata specification

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#E._Metadata_Spec

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Technical Infrastructure

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Technical Infrastructure

IssueAccept

and Store

Display

Backpack Display ‘Widget’Issuing Platform

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Some Issuing Tools

BadgeOS - WordPress pluginCredly - Web servicePurdue’s Passport - Platform/ BB add onD2L - coming soon?

There are plenty of other tools and platforms

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One example of use @ UW Oshkosh

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Course progress in Passport

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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