Keywords
- Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) - the OBI is the technology platform which hosts the important aspects of the badges out on the internet. This github wiki page has a really good diagram of the OBI.
- digital badge - the digital badge is the online equivalent of the traditional badge for achievement. Think girl or boy scout badges. You prove mastery of something, you get a badge.
- digital backpack - the digital backpack is like the sash for the scout badges. It serves as an online place to store, manage and organize your badges.
- baking - baking allows every badge to also include information about the badge, beyond the graphical design of the badge. The baking also creates digital integrity "baked" into the badge
- issued - badges are issued by a group, institution, master, supermentor, online university, learning community, etc. Any organization who has skills and knowledge they want others to possess can issue badges. These organizations / communities should be considered badge issuers.
- displayed - badges can be displayed separately from the issuer. Online references can be made to badges in a backpack and they displayed. Facebook or LinkedIn can be displayers.
- earned - badges can be earned by learners. An issuer will create, or be associated with, learning environments and once a learner has demonstrated competencies they can earn badges.
- asserted - the validity / integrity of badges can be asserted against a badge "authority". The main idea being; is the badge for real? does it link back to a solid set of curriculum? is the issuer valid? did the person really earn this badge? It is these kind of integrity checks that are derived from a badge assertion. More on this later...
- png files - the graphical images of badges are png files.
- json metadata - is data about the badge that can be stored as part of the actual badge. This links back to the baking of a badge.
- node.js - is the software system that open badges has been built
- mysql - is the database used for open badges
- github - is the software management and developer community platform for open badges.
References
- http://openbadges.org
- https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
- https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Infrastructure-Requirements
- http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/09/15/the-importance-of-open-in-mozillas-open-badges-project
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/infrastructure-tech-docs
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejs
- http://nodejs.org/
