an api of one's own: individual identities as first-class citizens in the open badges...
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http://openeducation2014.sched.org/event/17c9f7fbae4e9cfa23b41b2e204f01d1 Digital badges and their paper and sheepskin-based credential ancestors are ways of sharing socially important information that is tied to identity. Open Badges go further in helping people establish their identity by letting them collect together credentials from many issuers. Each Open Badge describes a trust relationship between its issuer and its recipient, in terms of criteria, evidence, and an image. The powerful part is that this relationship is verifiable and sharable with outside audiences. Any person or organization can participate in the ecosystem as any one of these roles. Because of this feature, Open Badges are a great step toward democratizing the credentialing ecosystem. However, the Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) standard constructs these three roles separately, defining identities differently for each. As the credentialing world begins to include more badge-aware applications that can talk to one another, we can build some awesome apps that issue, earn, and consume badges. There are exciting possibilities in learning pathway discovery, e-portfolios, personal learning networks as well as applications that use badges to describe relationships outside of education. In this moment, there is a chance to elevate both individuals and organizations to simultaneously serve all three roles in the ecosystem, as badge issuers, earners, and consumers without undermining the carefully built reputations of respected issuing institutions that currently occupy that role. How can we extend the OBI standard and construct our badge applications to give people personal access to the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that give them easy access to all three badge ecosystem roles and let them construct their identity as full players in this network? We'll take a look at what might be the killer apps that would justify this effort. Nate Otto, badges researcher, developer, and founding member of the Badge Alliance standards working group, will showcase possibilities and prototypes for applications that democratize badges. Serge Ravet will contribute theory and practice of building networks of trust relationships with badges and evidence and consequences for the badges ecosystem. The Open Education Conference is the perfect place to celebrate how free and open technology can empower individuals to help shape the networks around them.TRANSCRIPT
An API of One’s OwnBuilding trust networks with Open Badges
Nate Otto, Concentric Sky
Serge Ravet, Badge Europe! Europortfolio
November 19-21, 2014 :: Washington, DC
What are Open Badges?
Visual symbols of accomplishment
A common portable language for data about
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Open Badges are declarations of trust
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Anyone can earn badges
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Our technology should reflect our values
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Each role uses different technologies
Anyone with: • specially concocted JSON
file hosted on their website and the ability to concoct many more…
Anyone with: • email(s) • Persona(s) • Backpack(s) • Displayer(s)
Anyone with: • time • understanding • tools to validate badges and divine
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Is there ever any overlap?
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Issuers
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How can we bring badges into alignment with this philosophy?
How can we bring badges into alignment with this philosophy?
Let’s build these values into the Open Badges Standard and software!
Let’s build these values into the Open Badges Standard and software!
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What is the consequence of adopting these philosophies?
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Two Prototype Sketches
Discendum Oy
Badge Europe
Europortfolio
Concentric Sky
Oregon Center for Digital Learning
Oregon Badge Alliance
Trust Ecosystem Project Open Badges Passport
Trust Ecosystem Project
Trust Ecosystem Project
A 3-faceted application for badge Earners, Issuers, and Consumers
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Trust Ecosystem Project
To be developed, tested and refined in 2015
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Trust Ecosystem Project software
Open Source
Host-your-own installation optionHosted service
Connections to badge-aware services across the web
2015 Badge Pilots
12 programs in out-of-school learning, workforce development, and local government, kicking off in Q1 of 2015
Alliance of partners filling all three roles
Software and support for issuers, earners and consumers
Software function follows philosophy
credit: Mozilla Foundation
Serving multiple interests
• Recognize that all users may at times fill roles of Earner, Issuer, and Consumer
• Enable connectivity with enterprise issuing platforms and independent services
• Connect with available data sources and services
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Serving multiple interests
• Recognize that all users may at times fill roles of Earner, Issuer, and Consumer
• Enable connectivity with enterprise issuing platforms and independent services
• Connect with available data sources and services
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Serving multiple interests
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Define, organize, and issue badges
Incorporate endorsements
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Earners: Collecting and Sharing
Collection buildingReceive earned badges
Export & sharing
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Import Badges
Deliver Badges
Consumers: understanding badges
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What is the value of this badge?
What other badges are like this one?
Analyzing chains of trust
Trust Ecosystem Project
Bringing 3 user roles together
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• Common user between roles
• No additional onboarding to access new role
• Reflects how learning is structured in the real world
Open Badges Passport
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Services S1, S2 and S3 can access all my restricted data
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Trust Ecosystem Project Open Badges Passport
Food for thoughts...
Some describe Open Badges as "a new currency"
Open Badges are visible representations of
the oldest currency...
Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!
Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!Trust!Nate Otto
@ottonomySerge Ravet
@szerge
thank you!