This document discusses enabling badge ecosystems through collaboration and endorsement features. It describes key features in Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport that allow badges to be shared, endorsed by partner organizations, and endorsed by individual community members through comments and connections. These collaborative endorsement processes help recognition emerge from the community level rather than just from badge creators, enabling badge ecosystems.

1. ENABLING BADGE RECOGNITION
ECOSYSTEMS
Eric Rousselle
9.4.2019

2. From badge systems to badge ecosystems!
Les territoires apprenants (Learning regions)

3. Networks and communities

4. Features enabling emergence of ecosystems
• In Open Badge Factory
• the key word is collaboration: badge sharing, endorsement of partner
organizations, endorsement of badges
• In Open Badge Passport
• the key word community members social interaction: comments on
badges, connecting with others, individual endorsements
• Recognition is not anymore the monopole of badge creators / issuers,
ecosystems are enabled by different collaborative processes such as
endorsements, which are community level recognition

6. Badge issuer’s endorsement

7. Endorsing a badge earned by an individual

8. Endorsing the badge earned by an individual

9. Who is endorsing this badge

10. Endorsements in Open Badge Passport

11. Several type of endorsements
• In OBF: Partner organizations can endorse each other
• In OBF: A badge (badge class) can be endorsed by a partner organisation
• In OBF: a badge can be shared and issued by a partner
• In OBP: a user can endorse an other user’s badge (assertion)
• Coming soon:
• In OBP: an organization can endorse an user’s badge
• In OBP: an individual can endorse a badge earned by an organization
• In OBP: an organization can endorse a badge earned by an other
organization
• In OBF: badges can be endorsed easily by non OBF users

12. Making the community visible in Open Badge Passport

13. Endorsing the badge earned by an individual

14. Endorsing the badge earned by an individual

15. THANK YOU!
eric.rousselle@discendum.com
@eric_rousselle