Slides from @megcolek Mozilla Open Badges 201 Webinar, Nov. 13, 2013

1. Mozilla Open Badges 201
Badge System Design & Technology Review
Megan Cole
Marketing Lead
megan@mozillafoundation.org
@megcolek
Sunny Lee
Product Lead
sunny@mozillafoundation.org
@soletelee
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2. Welcome to our 201 Webinar
Badge System Design Overview
Technical Overview
7 Steps for Roadmapping
What’s Next
And more...

3. A
differing opinions
Assessment Assessment
Assessment
Assessment Assessment Assessment
Assessment Assessment
Assessment

4. B
Some folks say our educational system is…

5. C
many challenges
seat time
complicated metrics
overcrowding
remediation

7. Badges act as representations of
achievements, learning, skills,
interests, competencies

8. hard & soft skills,
peer assessment, and
stackable lifelong learning

9. Open Badges are a form of
personal social currency
you can share across the web

10. How are we getting there?

11. Through a
shared infrastructure:
a universal standard

12. Badge metadata spec
+ Issuer API
(and in 2014 an Endorser API)

13. Badge name
Badge URL (description)
Badge criteria
Badge image
Issuer
Issue date
Recipient
Alignment (standards)
Expiration date
Evidence URL

14. What does this mean
in practice?

16. formal & informal
learning pathways

17. Can I see an example?

21. Badge System Design

22. http://bit.ly/badgesystemdesign

23. http://bit.ly/badgesystemdesign
1. Badge Team
2. Badge Info
3. Badge Tech
4. Badge Design

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

25. Homework
exercise #1: write down your
top 3 badge system goals
(5 minutes)

26. Homework
exercise #2: copy the
spreadsheet & begin working
through your first badge
(7 minutes)

27. Homework
exercise #3: share your badge
thinking with us at
badges@mozillafoundation.org
(8 minutes)

28. http://bit.ly/BSDwiki

29. http://bit.ly/ob-research

30. Technology Overview

31. Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure

32. Free and open source software Backpacks and APIs

34. http://community.openbadges.org/

35. http://bit.ly/OB_IssuerAPI
API: An application programming interface (API) that specifies how software
components should interact with each other.

36. http://bit.ly/OBWidgets
Widget: A small application with limited functionality that can be installed and
executed within a web page by an end user.

38. http://bit.ly/platform-chart

39. http://bit.ly/OBIDev

40. 7 key points in roadmapping
and resource management

41. 1. Funding
2. Partnerships
3. Research
4. Badge system design
5. Time management
6. Technical resources
7. Design resources

42. 1. Funding

43. How might you actively think
about the personnel and
required resources needed to
build your best possible badge
system?

44. 2. Partnerships

45. How might you freely imagine
the system that you might be
able to build with others?

46. 3. Research

47. How might you intentionally
plan for the ways that badges
may influence you & your
teams as well as your badge
earners?

48. 4. Badge System

49. How might you consciously
think about the genealogy of
your system and it’s future
growth?

50. 5. Timing

51. How might you deliberately
plan for a full system life cycle?

52. 6. Technology Resources

53. How might you best architect
your team to fail fast and
maximize success?

54. 7. Design Resources

55. How might you dynamically
explore the most compelling
visual representation of your
system?

56. 1. Funding
2. Partnerships
3. Research
4. Badge system design
5. Time management
6. Technical resources
7. Design resources

57. What’s Next?

61. Stay in Touch
Join our weekly Community call
Wednesdays at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
http://bit.ly/OBCommCalls
Post questions to our Google Group
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges
Stay up-to-date with our Blog
http://openbadges.tumblr.com/
Reach out to us for information
badges@mozillafoundation.org

62. THANK YOU!
http://openbadges.org || @OpenBadges