Short talk for OBSEG 2013-10-09

1. Structuring OpenBadges with InLOC
Simon Grant
CETIS
for OBSEG
2013-10-09, Glasgow

2. Outline
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The structure of a Badge
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What is InLOC?
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The Badge Class related to InLOC
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How are Badges structured?
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How can InLOC help?
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Developing InLOC technically

3. The structure of a Badge
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https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Assertio
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BadgeAssertion says something like
– “this org awarded this badge to this person”
– (and maybe) “here is some related evidence”
– Badge image has metadata “baked” in
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BadgeClass
– the generic badge (common to all awards of it)
– has “criteria” – could be learning outcome(s)
– also has “alignment” info

4. What is InLOC?
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“Integrating Learning Outcomes and
Competences”
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Specification for representing information about
– intended learning outcomes
– competenc(i)es
– structures or frameworks of definitions of them
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(Tech: originally XML; provisionally JSON)
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For communicating useful information
– interoperably
– between tools and services

5. BadgeClass and InLOC
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If criteria are learning outcomes (etc.)
– criteria URL could point to InLOC info
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If criteria are not clear cut learning outcomes
– criteria may or may not be suited to InLOC
– alignments can point to InLOC definitions

6. How are Badges structured?
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Various ideas may be tried...
– Lesser Badges could build up to greater ones
– Could have pathways with prerequisites
– Badges can be marked as equivalent or related
– ...
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Examples from participants here?
– (please bring them up in the question time)

7. How can InLOC help you?
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Can represent your information specifically
about learning outcomes, competence
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Factors out your reusable LOC information from
anything badge-specific
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Provides thread and glue for your badges
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Fills a need not satisfied by the Mozilla spec
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Your Badges point to your InLOC info

8. Developing InLOC technically
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XML binding is defined (in CEN Workshop)
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Probably JSON binding will be more useful
– JSON used by OpenBadges, xAPI, etc.
– by the way, how about JSON-LD?
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Please help us fix on a really useful JSON
binding – all are welcome to join in
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Specially if you implement it at the same time!

9. Thanks!
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for your attention
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for your questions now
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for any future interest or later discussion:
– asimong@gmail.com or @asimong
This presentation “Structuring OpenBadges with InLOC” by Simon Grant of Cetis
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/ is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Unported Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

10. Thanks!
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for your attention
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for your questions now
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for any future interest or later discussion:
– asimong@gmail.com or @asimong
This presentation “Structuring OpenBadges with InLOC” by Simon Grant of Cetis
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/ is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Unported Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/