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.

1. An API of One’s Own
Building trust networks with Open Badges
Nate Otto, Concentric Sky
Serge Ravet, Badge Europe! Europortfolio
November 19-21, 2014 :: Washington, DC

2. What are Open Badges?

3. Visual symbols of
accomplishment
A common portable
language for data about
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4. Open Badges are
declarations of trust

5. Badge Issuer Badge Earner
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7. Open Badges are visible declarations of trust
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12. Anyone can earn badges
Anyone can issue badges

13. Our technology should reflect
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14. Each role uses different technologies
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Consumers

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• specially concocted JSON
file hosted on their website
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• email(s)
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to validate badges and divine
the links between them
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Consumers

16. Earners
Is there ever any overlap?
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18. How can we bring badges into
alignment with this philosophy?

19. How can we bring badges into
alignment with this philosophy?
Let’s build these values into the
Open Badges Standard and software!

20. Let’s build these values into the
Open Badges Standard and software!
Badge Issuer Badge Earner
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Badges are
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21. What is the consequence of
adopting these philosophies?

22. Break out of
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27. Two Prototype Sketches
Trust Ecosystem Project Open Badges Passport
Discendum Oy
Badge Europe
Europortfolio
Concentric Sky
Oregon Center for Digital Learning
Oregon Badge Alliance

28. Trust Ecosystem Project

29. Trust Ecosystem Project
A 3-faceted application for badge
Earners, Issuers, and Consumers
Earner
Issuer Consumer

30. Trust Ecosystem Project
To be developed, tested and refined
in 2015
Earner
Issuer Consumer

31. Trust Ecosystem Project software
Open Source
Host-your-own installation option
Hosted service
Connections to badge-aware services
across the web

32. 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

33. Software function follows philosophy
credit: Mozilla Foundation

34. 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
Earners
Issuers Consumers

35. Serving multiple interests
• Recognize that all users may at times fill roles of Earner,
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36. Serving multiple interests
Issuers
Define, organize,
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37. Earners: Collecting and Sharing
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Collection building
Receive earned badges
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Deliver Badges
Import Badges

38. Consumers: understanding badges
Analyzing chains of trust
Consumers
What is the value of
this badge?
What other badges are
like this one?

39. 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

40. Open Badges Passport

42. Nate's Passport
About me Activity wall
Contact Search

43. Badges Collected
7,405 4
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Badges Issued
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Evidence
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44. Organise Public Restrict. Private External Search
New Pledged Collections
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46. Evidence Public Restrict. Private External Search
Types
Badges
Pages
Experience (xAPI)
Images
Texts
Miscellaneous
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47. Badges are issued through
trusted issuing services

48. Passport
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49. Badge Issuing Services
Enforce badge designers policies
to issue Badges xyzB1, xyzB2 and xyzB3
issuer needs endorsement xyzE4 from XYZ
Badge designer

50. Passports
Enforce badge earners policies
Reject badges issued from outside of my 2nd degree connections
Services S1, S2 and S3 can access all my restricted data
Only service S4 can access restricted restricted data RD1 and RD4

51. OBI 2.0 Architecture

52. S e r v i c e s
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Badge Issuing
Career
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Discovery
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Trust Ecosystem Project Open Badges Passport

53. Food for thoughts...

54. Some describe Open Badges as
"a new currency"

55. Open Badges are visible
representations of
the oldest currency...

56. Trust!

57. Trust!
thank you!
Nate Otto
@ottonomy
Serge Ravet
@szerge