Open Badge Factory

Maximize the potential of the Open Badges you create and issue

Eric RousselleDiscendum Oy

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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

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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

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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.

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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)

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Issue Your Open Badges Anywhere, Manage Them in One Place

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The Open Badge Factory’s architecture

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The OBF pluginsIssuer plugins

• Moodle 2.2 – 2.5• Totara LMS• Discendum Optima• Mahara

Displayers:• Facebook• Mahara

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The Open Badge Factory Features

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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

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The OBF Project Schedules

• 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

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Further information!

• www.openbadgefactory.com (released on the 15.1.2014)

• info@openbadgefactory.com