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=== Drumbeat / Foundation === | === Drumbeat / Foundation === | ||
''Speaker Location:'' | ''Speaker Location:'' | ||
Open Badges Public Beta launch | ==== Open Badges Public Beta launch ==== | ||
What: Public beta version of the Open Badge Infrastructure, the underlying badge specification and set of repositories ('Backpacks') to support a badge-as-alternative-credential ecosystem | * What: Public beta version of the Open Badge Infrastructure, the underlying badge specification and set of repositories ('Backpacks') to support a badge-as-alternative-credential ecosystem | ||
Pretty big deal - lots of badges are getting a lot of attention and lots of people are working on badges toward a common goal of supporting all types of learning, especially informal, interest-driven and on-the-job learning. The OBI is a key part of success since it allows learners to earn badges across learning experiences, collect them into a single collection they manage and share them out with potential employers, etc. | * Pretty big deal - lots of badges are getting a lot of attention and lots of people are working on badges toward a common goal of supporting all types of learning, especially informal, interest-driven and on-the-job learning. The OBI is a key part of success since it allows learners to earn badges across learning experiences, collect them into a single collection they manage and share them out with potential employers, etc. | ||
Public beta includes: full issuer API, Backpacks with management tools, privacy controls, grouping and publishing features, initial displayer APIs, necessary legal components | * Public beta includes: full issuer API, Backpacks with management tools, privacy controls, grouping and publishing features, initial displayer APIs, necessary legal components | ||
Lots of badge issuers already starting to push badges in. | * Lots of badge issuers already starting to push badges in. | ||
[http://openbadges.org http://openbadges.org] (earn your first badge!) | * More info / see for yourself: | ||
[http://beta.openbadges.org http://beta.openbadges.org] | ** [http://openbadges.org http://openbadges.org] (earn your first badge!) | ||
[https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges] | ** [http://beta.openbadges.org http://beta.openbadges.org] | ||
** [https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges] | |||
=== Identity === | === Identity === | ||