Ltdc Open Badges Tech
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The document provides a technical overview of open badges, highlighting their structure as PNG files with embedded JSON metadata. It discusses various issuing platforms and tools for displaying badges, such as BadgeOS and Credly, while emphasizing the importance of supporting users in displaying badges and aligning technical choices with broader frameworks and standards. Additionally, it touches on considerations like badge issuing triggers and interaction with standards like xAPI.
Ltdc Open Badges Tech
- 1. Open Badges: Technical Overview R. John Robertson, LTDC October 8, 2013
- 2. Technical Context ● What do you need to know? ● What questions do you need ask?
- 3. So what is a badge? A png file With ‘baked in’ json metadata
- 4. What can it contain?
- 7. Technical Infrastructure Issuing Platform Backpack Issue Accept and Store Display ‘Widget’ Display
- 8. Some Issuing Tools BadgeOS - WordPress plugin Credly - Web service Purdue’s Passport - Platform/ BB add on D2L - coming soon? There are plenty of other tools and platforms
- 9. One example of use @ UW Oshkosh
- 10. Course progress in Passport
- 11. 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
- 12. Links Mozilla Open Badges http://openbadges.org Metadata Specification https://wiki.mozilla. org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#E. _Metadata_Spec