1.
S1.1B: Create your Open Badge
S1.2B: Design your Open Badge System
S1.3B: Create your Open Badge Infrastructure

2.
Who are you?
Dr. Doug Belshaw
Badges & Skills Lead
Mozilla Foundation
@dajbelshaw
doug@mozillafoundation.org

3.
Outline of S1.1B
The objective of this session is to respond to the
questions:
• what is an Open Badge made of?
• what do I need to create an Open Badge?
During this session you will have the opportunity to
create your own badge as a Delegate or Presenter at
ePIC 2013. Many different options will be explored
using a variety of resources.

4.
Structure of Session
Doug talking
You talking

5.
http://www.digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas/

6.
Who?What?
When?
Where?Why? How?

7.
Mozilla!
(global non-profit)

8.
Some of the organisations
involved in the ecosystem

9.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Issuers

10.
http://workforce.io/

11.
http://www.kenteq.nl/smartsite.net?id=KT_HOME_EN

12.
http://sweetwaterfoundation.com

13.
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-
projects.php?id=2246

14.
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/
national/dln/special/DigitalBadges.html

15.
http://www.proexam.org/index.php/technology/
digital-micro-credentials

16.
http://www.digitalme.co.uk/student-digital-leaders-
badgeathon/

17.
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/passport/

18.
Who?
What?
When?Where?
Why? How?

19.
Open Badges are images with
metadata hard-coded into them

20.
CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

21.
Visual representations of
achievements, learning, skills,
interests, competencies

22.
They can accommodate
formal & informal
learning pathways

23.
Mozilla has built (and will maintain) the plumbing

24.
They can represent hard & soft
skills, peer assessment, and
stackable lifelong learning

25.
Open Badges can capture
learning wherever & however it
occurs—allowing for innovation

26.
Open Badges?
(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)

27.
Not simply either/or
—both/and!

28.
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?

29.
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
GCSEs,
eBacc, etc.
Onlineachievements
After school
club certificates

30.
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
What skills/
attributes are
missing here?
(how can we best present
them in a holistic way?)
GCSEs,
eBacc, etc.
Onlineachievements
After school
club certificates

31.
Open
Badges
Infrastructure
(OBI)

32.
I love badges for
motivating me in
my learning!
We use metadata-
infused credentials
aligned with the OBI
I’m using micro-
accreditation to
make achievements
more granular

33.
Who?
What? When?
Where?
Why?
How?

34.
http://openbadges.org

35.
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?

36.
3 main ways to issue badges...

37.
Roll your own solution
(using onboarding documentation)
Use plugin for an existing system
(plugins available for most major platforms/systems)
Third-party issuing platform
(URLs in metadata point to their servers)
3 main ways to issue badges:

38.
Use plugin for an existing system
(plugins available for most major platforms/systems)

39.
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?

40.
NOW!(we launched v1.0 in March)
NOW!NOW!

41.
Size of Open Badges
ecosystem
( )Data correct as of 4 July 2013
800+
issuers
- such as NASA,
Purdue University,
Disney, etc.

42.
Coming soon...

43.
Federation of badge backpacks
Image CC BY IsaacMao
Coming soon...

44.
Endorsement (3rd-party signing of badges)
Federation of badge backpacks
Images CC BY IsaacMao & SeattleClouds.com
Coming soon...

45.
COPPA compliance

46.
SOME IDEAS
to get you started
• Play! Experiment! Earn your first badge at
openbadges.org to see how they work.
• Think up some criteria and issue a badge
to someone using badg.us
• Join the Open Badges community. Ask
questions!
• Launch a pilot. What behaviours/skills/
understanding are you trying to promote?

47.
Conclusion
• Open Badges = metadata-infused
credentials
• We’re now at v1.0 of the OBI
• Lots of organisations are already
using badges
• We’re going to get started right now!

48.
Site URLs
• Design your badge:
• http://openbadges.me
• Issue your badge:
• http://badg.us

49.
Outline of S1.2B
The objective of this session is to respond to the
question:
• who are the people, resources and processes I need
to make Open Badges work in an organisation?
During this session we will start by eliciting the
particular needs of your institution then work together
at establishing the main elements of your Open Badges
deployment: evidence, criteria, audience (earner,
issuer), backpack, etc.

50.
Badge System Design

51.
Badge System Design
Design a badge for your context:
• Who is your badge for?
• What skills and knowledge does the badge
represent?
• What behaviours does the badge encourage?
• What do you need to do to earn the badge? (criteria)
• What artefact(s) will show that the criteria has been
met? (evidence)
• Why bother earning the badge? What opportunities
does it unlock? (value proposition)

52.
Badge Pathways
https://carlacasilli.wordpress.com

53.
Badge System Design
Design a badge system:
• What other badges exist in your ecosystem?
• Are there different levels of badges? Meta-level
badges?
• What resources are required for your badge
system to work?
• Who supports and recognises your badge(s)?
(endorsers)

54.
Outline of S1.3B
The objective of this session is to respond to the
question:
• how can I make my Open Badge System visible and
exploitable beyond the boundaries of my
organisation?
During this session we explore the current options and
challenges we need to take into account to establish a
seamless Open Badges Infrastructure.

55.
Going Beyond Your Org

56.
Going Beyond Your Org
Some questions:
• How will people find your badge? (e.g. tags)
• Do you need endorsers? Why? Who?
• Would your badges be ‘interoperable’ / a bridge
between your system and another system?
• Could your badge system accommodate someone
coming in with badges from elsewhere similar to
yours? How?