ltdc open badges tech

Open Badges: Technical Overview

R. John Robertson, LTDC October 8, 2013

Technical Context

● What do you need to know?

● What questions do you need ask?

So what is a badge?

A png fileWith ‘baked in’ json metadata

What can it contain?

The Metadata specification

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#E._Metadata_Spec

Technical Infrastructure

Technical Infrastructure

IssueAccept

and Store

Display

Backpack Display ‘Widget’Issuing Platform

Some Issuing Tools

BadgeOS - WordPress pluginCredly - Web servicePurdue’s Passport - Platform/ BB add onD2L - coming soon?

There are plenty of other tools and platforms

One example of use @ UW Oshkosh

Course progress in Passport

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

Links

Mozilla Open Badgeshttp://openbadges.org

Metadata Specification https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#E._Metadata_Spec