BadgeKit is a set of open, foundational tools to make the badging process easy and simple that will be launched by Mozilla's Open Badges team in March of 2014. This presentation provides a general overview of BadgeKit, including: - Why BadgeKit? - What is BadgeKit? - A deeper look at BadgeKit for Cities - BadgeKit release timeline - And more...

2. Introducing BadgeKit
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3. Today’s Visionary Hangout
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Why BadgeKit
What is BadgeKit
BadgeKit for Cities
Timeline
And more...

4. Why BadgeKit?

5. There are too many gaps in the badging experience
and many of the existing options are too closed, too
expensive or too big.

7. It’s harder to make an open
badge than a closed badge.

9. Our Goal with BadgeKit
To improve the badging experience for issuers,
learners and consumers, making open badging
simple and easy to do.
Close the gap with lightweight, free open badging tools.

10. Our Goal with BadgeKit
Provide the foundational tools to stoke the growth
and development of the Open Badges ecosystem.
Given the open source model of BadgeKit,
improvements made by anyone can benefit
everyone, from bug fixes to new features and more.

11. Our Goal with BadgeKit
Build our values of openness, interoperability,
agency, choice, and connectedness into the core
and help shape emerging badge systems.
Let’s make it easier to build and issue an open badge.

12. What is BadgeKit?

13. What is BadgeKit?
A set of open, foundational tools to make the
badging process easy and simple.

14. What is BadgeKit?
BadgeKit builds on existing technologies that have
evolved out of several years of work and user testing,
including Chicago Summer of Learning. In fact,
specific tools within BadgeKit are currently being
used for key partners within the badge ecosystem.

16. BadgeKit will:
Support each key point in the badging experience
including discovering, building, assessing, issuing,
collecting and sharing.

17. BadgeKit will:
Provide lightweight, modular and open options
(standards) for the community of badge makers to
use and build upon within their existing sites or
systems.

18. D
I ssue
iscover
B uild A ssess
ollect S hare
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19. D
Discover
A hosted, shared directory of available badges with
features for searching, filtering, wish listing and
endorsing badges.

20. B
Build
A tool for defining all of the metadata, including criteria
pages, and finalizing visual design for each badge.

21. A
Assess
A tool for mentor or peer assessment that includes
rubrics and criteria for a badge, the ability for learners to
apply for a badge, as well as access for assessors to
manage and review applications.

22. I
Issue
A tool for awarding badges to learners and hosting
assertions to enable badges to be pushed to
Backpacks.

23. C
Collect
A “Backpack” for collecting badges across various
experiences or organizations. Backpacks are “federated’,
meaning that different instances still plug into the broader
ecosystem and can share data across.

24. S
Share
Easy badge sharing capabilities across the web (i.e.
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) and templates for
publishing badges (Resume 2.0, portfolio, etc.)

26. BadgeKit for Cities

27. BadgeKit for Cities
BadgeKit for Cities is a special version of BadgeKit,
with shared hosted tools and features specific to city
implementation needs.

28. Key BadgeKit Features
There are a series of special features included in
BadgeKit that help cities fully implement and
execute the city-wide project. These include:
Support for children under 13 years old
• Mobile/SMS badge issuing
• Different identifiers other than email to issue a badge (i.e.
username, twitter handle, etc.)
• City-hosted federated Backpacks to ensure proper data handling
and access
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29. Why use BadgeKit for Cities
Key reasons why BadgeKit for Cities is an valuable
component of the 2014 programs:
Provides turnkey badge building, designing and issuing
technology
• Connects multiple organizations, networks and cities
• Shares resources and badges across cities
• Scales impact
• Ensures a common core that can plug into different assortments of
existing systems or tools in each city, and easily extend and
customize as needed
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30. BadgeKit Timing

31. BadgeKit Timing
Pieces of BadgeKit are already in use with select
partners. The public beta launch of the full MVP
BadgeKit is targeted for early March 2014.
BadgeKit for Cities will be available initial March
2014, with additional special features added by May
2014.

32. BadgeKit Cost

33. BadgeKit Cost
BadgeKit is open source, so the tools are available
for usage for free. Mozilla can support a deeper
engagement - hosting, integrating, customizing
and/or supporting - for additional fees.

35. Need Your Help

36. Need Your Help
BadgeKit has lofty goals and we need your help:
Review the current plans and provide feedback
• Send us requirements that you feel need to be included
• Help us define the common interfaces so that your tool seamlessly
plugs in
• Build additional tools or customizations on top of the core
• Help us define the types of support and services needed to make
BadgeKit usable and accessible to all (and even provide some of
those services!)
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38. THANK YOU!
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