ltdc open badges tech
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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 2013TRANSCRIPT
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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
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Links
Mozilla Open Badgeshttp://openbadges.org
Metadata Specification https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#E._Metadata_Spec