Open Badges - CENT UJI 2012

Open Badges Carles Bellver 2012

www.openbadges.org Mozilla Foundation

$1 million grantMacArthur Foundation

Accreditation/credentialing system

Accreditation/credentialing system - “open”{ - “alternative” - “micro”

“If we’re successful, thebenefits to learners willbe tremendous. — blog.mozilla.org

“There is a real chance tocreate learning thatworks more like the web. — blog.mozilla.org

Badges?

“badge |baj|nouna distinctive emblem worn as a mark ofoffice, membership, achievement, licensedemployment, etc.: name badges | a GirlScout badge.— The New Oxford American Dictionary

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/benthomasphoto/1592354369 Insignias

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/35703177@N00/2987260527/ Medals

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/eezpictures/3299183468/ Accomplishment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_button_1860.jpg Campaigns

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/tamiment/2784387585/ Support

pepe@uji.esAfﬁliation

Web badges

FoursquareMore web badges

Google Newshttp://youtu.be/QP5szEn2dxs And more

People like badges.

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.

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.

Open BadgeInfrastructure

wiki.mozilla.org/File:Badge-diagram-2.2.jpg

OBI ecosystem AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING ISSUERS DISPLAYERS BADGEEDUCATION API API BLOGPROVIDERS BACKPACK METADATA METADATA FACEBOOKORGANIZATIONS ✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIOWEBSITES 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

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.

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“Badges are notassessments. — David Wiley

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

“Compared with the new openbadge systems, the standardcollege transcript looks like asad and archaic thing.— The Chronicle of Higher Education

Conclusions (2)■ OBI as an open infrastructure for presentation portfolios.■ OBI separates the credentialing and teaching functions of higher education.■ What about assessment?

“…no one is paying sufficientattention to the gap betweenlearning anything anywhere (OER)and receiving a recognition (OBI)– this gap is called “assessment.” — David Wiley

“…many in the field are overlookingthe place where badges make themost sense of all – the formalhigher education institution. — David Wiley

Moodle & Mahara■ Totara Learning Solutions will be developing an Open Badges solution for Moodle and Mahara. ‣ Moodle as Issuer. ‣ Mahara as Displayer.

OBI ecosystem AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING ISSUERS DISPLAYERS BADGEEDUCATION API API BLOGPROVIDERS BACKPACK METADATA METADATA FACEBOOKORGANIZATIONS ✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIOWEBSITES 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

OBI ecosystem AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING ISSUERS DISPLAYERS moodleEDUCATION API BADGE API BLOGPROVIDERS BACKPACK METADATA METADATA FACEBOOKORGANIZATIONS ✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIOWEBSITES 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

OBI ecosystem AUTHENTICATION / CLAIM MAKING ISSUERS DISPLAYERS moodleEDUCATION API BADGE API BLOGPROVIDERS BACKPACK METADATA METADATA FACEBOOKORGANIZATIONS ✔ BADGES BADGES ✔ BADGES EPORTFOLIOWEBSITES 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

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.

OBI Tech Overview■ Issuer API■ Displayer API■ Veriﬁcation API■ Endorsement API■ Metadata Speciﬁcation■ Reference Implementation

OBI 2012 RoadmapQ1 OBI Beta ✓Q2 WebsiteQ3 Research and Planning for 1.0Q4 OBI 1.0

More infowww.openbadges.orgwiki.mozilla.org/BadgesOpen Badges and Moodlemoodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=197834Openness and the Future of Assessmenthttp://opencontent.org/blog/archives/237

Carles Bellver bellverc@uji.eshttp://cent.uji.es

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