Getting ready for IMS Global
In October, IMS Global Learning Consortium, Mozilla Foundation, LRNG and the Badge Alliance announced that the Open Badges Specification (openbadgespec.org) would be accepted into the collection of web standards in IMS Global’s care as of January. The transition date is nearly upon us!
I have been privileged to serve as interim Director of the Badge Alliance as we prepared the Specification and the BA community to make this major upgrade. For the first time, the Open Badges project will have a distributed funding base made up of its constituent members, who are investing in the future of Open Badges through their development, use, and memberships in IMS.
As part of this transition, the Badge Alliance will cease operations at the end of this week. We held our final Community Call in the current series this morning, and we have only two more meetings of the Standard Working Group (2.0 Specification Stand-Ups December 29th and 30th at 5pm UTC here).
My posts that were previously published under the Badge Alliance publication have now moved over to the Open Badges publication here on Medium.
Here’s a handy list of our guest posts from this year, including a recap of one of the Badge Alliance-sponsored events, the Badge Summit before ISTE in Colorado as well as a provocative series of posts from Alliance member Serge Ravet.
- Didn’t get to the Badge Summit? Here’s a recap! (27 June 2016, Chris Crytzer)
- Open Badges: the BOTOX of education? — beyond credentials (9 May 2016, Serge Ravet)
- Open Badges: formal vs. informal recognition — beyond credentials part 2 (19 May 2016, Serge Ravet)
- The Open Badges Backpack: an Obstacle to Innovation? (11 July 2016, Serge Ravet)
- Beyond Open Badges: Open Signatures (28 September 2016, Serge Ravet)
We’ll make an additional post before the end of the week there to share some more wrap up details and the final publication of the Badge Alliance will be the 2.0 Specification Recommendation that will be the initial input to the forthcoming IMS Global Open Badges official working group.
