Open Badge Factory presentation Mozilla Community Call 18.12.2013
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like625 views
This document describes the Open Badge Factory (OBF) project, a cloud-based platform that provides a centralized framework for organizations to implement and manage open badge systems. The OBF was developed by Discendum, a Finnish eLearning provider, and several partner organizations to help users avoid issues like badge inflation and fragmentation across platforms. The OBF allows users to issue badges from various systems like Moodle and Mahara and manage them centrally, provides tools for badge creation and awarding, and tracks badge data and user feedback. An initial version was released in January 2014 with piloting through June 2014 and a final version planned for December 2014.
Open Badge Factory presentation Mozilla Community Call 18.12.2013
- 1. Open Badge Factory Maximize the potential of the Open Badges you create and issue Eric Rousselle Discendum Oy
- 2. About Discendum Inc. • Finnish eLearning service provider • Our clients: educational, vocational establishments and companies • Our services: – Optima and Totara LMS – Kyvyt.fi ePortfolio based on Mahara • Mahara and Totara partner • Coordinator and main developer of the Open Badge Factory project 2 16.12.2013
- 3. OBF Project Partners and Founder • Discendum (development and coordination) • The Teacher Training School of Turku University (piloting) • Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius (research and consulting) • OK Study Center (piloting) • IlonaIT Oy (piloting) • Raisoft Oy (piloting) • The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation 3 16.12.2013
- 4. What is Open Badge Factory? A cloud-based platform that provides a centralized quality framework for organizations so that they can implement and manage meaningful, consistent and sustainable badge systems. 4 16.12.2013
- 5. OBF helps organizations to deal with the following issues • How to avoid badge inflation and inconsistent badge systems? • How to avoid the fragmentation of our badges in several platforms? • How can we manage who in our organization is authorized to create badges and who is only allowed to issue them? • How can we evaluate the impact of our badges on our earners and on the people who open them? (consumers) 5 16.12.2013
- 6. Issue Your Open Badges Anywhere, Manage Them in One Place 6 16.12.2013
- 7. The Open Badge Factory’s architecture 7 16.12.2013
- 8. The OBF plugins Issuer plugins • • • • Moodle 2.2 – 2.5 Totara LMS Discendum Optima Mahara Displayers: • Facebook • Mahara 8 16.12.2013
- 9. The Open Badge Factory Features 9 16.12.2013
- 10. Main Features • • • • • • • Member organization authentication / certification of badges Users’ rights management and teamwork supporting features Badge creator tools (badges and metabadges) Issuer tools (awarding, self-assessment forms) Tracking system and reports Badge earners’s feedback system OBF Member community (sharing and endorsement of badges) • OBF Badge backpack federated with the Mozilla’s backpack 10 16.12.2013
- 11. The OBF Project Schedules • • • • 11 Started officially on 1.8.2013 Release of the first version 15.1.2014 Piloting period from January to June 2014 Release of the final version December 2014 16.12.2013
- 12. Further information! • www.openbadgefactory.com (released on the 15.1.2014) • info@openbadgefactory.com 12 16.12.2013