Maintenance notice: Open Badge Factory will be offline for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday Dec 17, from 9:00 to 17:00 (EET)
Open Badges is an open standard developed by the Mozilla Foundation to recognise, validate and demonstrate learning that happens everywhere.
Open Badges are digital credentials, created and issued by organisations such as schools, vocational organisations, companies and employers for their students, members, staff, clients or partners.
Our platform Open Badge Factory is certified by IMS Global and follows the 2.0 version of the standard.
Open Badge Factory is a versatile platform for organisations wanting to create, issue and manage Open Badges.
Suitable for any organisation, big or small, Open Badge Factory is a user-friendly and cost-efficient service to start issuing Open Badges and building sustainable Open Badge ecosystems.
Join our free Open Badge Factory Academy webinars to hear about the latest updates and new features, interesting use cases and get tips and ideas to develop your Open Badges strategy.
Plugins and LTI integration
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Welcome to OBF Academy webinar on Tuesday October 29th at 14.00 GMT. We will hear an interesting case story of Newcastle University and how they are getting the most out of Open Badges. Details here.
Au cours de ce webinaire Mathieu Muselet, Chargé de mission OPEN BADGE pour le réseau national de la Ligue de l’enseignement, interviendra sur le sujet “Mobiliser un territoire apprenant au moyen des Open Badges.”
Ce webinaire aura lieu le lundi 7 octobre à 15:00 heures CEST, (9:00 am EDT et 16:00 EEST).
Pour vous connecter Cliquez ici.
Open Badge Factory has published an integration to the ESCO Framework (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations). OBF provides badge creators the possibility to make direct searches to ESCO, search for competency descriptions, and add them directly to badges.
Read more here.
Open Badge Factory has released a great new feature: External endorsement. An OBF user can now request endorsements from a non OBF user. Check out the following article for making badge endorsement more usable, click here.
Are you interested in open badges & product development? This is for You: join our interactive webinar! You can ask questions, give comments and hear what’s new in Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport. Webinars are on Sept. 16-18 in English, French and Finnish.
Webinar in English on Monday, Sep. 16th at 14:00 CEST! Details here.
Webinar in French on Tuesday, Sep. 17th at 14:00 CEST! Details here.
Webinar in Finnish on Wednesday, Sep. 18th at 15:00 EEST! Details here.
Badge Finland network offers free webinars about open badges in Finnish. Tampere University of Applied Sciences will give a presentation on their “OHO!” open badges project on Tuesday Sept. 3rd at 14.00 EEST! Details here.
Eric Rousselle, OBF’s CEO, will present our newest service level called Pro and all of it’s great features! This is a good chance to see how we’ve been developing Open Badge Factory, what is possible with our platform and who would benefit from the Pro level.
Join our free OBF Academy webinar on Tuesday, Feb. 26th at 2pm GMT! Details here.
We are pleased to inform our customers that encouraged by the significant growth of Open Badge Factory’s global sales in 2018, Discendum Ltd. has founded a subsidiary company named Open Badge Factory Ltd. to put more emphasis on new product development and international markets.
Discendum has now transferred all Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport operations and agreements to Open Badge Factory Ltd. The CEO of the new company is Eric Rousselle, who has managed the OBF/OBP team from the very beginning.
We wish to highlight that this transfer does not require anything from our customers and that all will continue as before.
What are the changes?
Welcome aboard Open Badge Factory Ltd.! We encourage you to follow us on social media and read our newsletters (links below) so you can keep up with the latest happenings!
Kind regards, Open Badge Factory team
We’re looking for an International Sales and Marketing Coordinator to join our OBF team in Oulu, Finland. The applicant needs to talk Finnish and have excellent English language skills. Read more about the job here (in Finnish).
We’re also looking for a Developer to join our team in Oulu, Finland. Read more about the job here (in Finnish).
Welcome to Badge Finland network’s meeting in Helsinki on Friday Dec. 14th at 8.00-12.00! In addition to interesting presenters, the event offers a great chance to meet other like-minded people.
The event will be held in Finnish and is free for Badge Finland network’s members. For others, the registration fee is 50€ + vat. Check out the event program and sign up here!
Mika Piipponen, Network Coordinator, from EHYT ry (Finnish Association for Substance Abuse Prevention) will present how they’re using Open Badges in volunteer work, educational activities and more.
Join our free OBF Academy webinar on Tuesday, Nov. 13th at 2pm GMT to hear their case story! Details here.
Discendum organises an online Open Badge course in November 2018. Please note that the course is in Finnish. Both OBF customers and non-customers are welcome to join!
Read more about Open Badge Osaaja basic course and sign up here.
Satu Järvinen, CEO, from SkillSafari will present a great Open Badge use case in our upcoming OBF Academy webinar. The webinar will air live on Tuesday Oct. 9 at 2 pm BST. Joining the webinar is free for anyone so we better see you there!
SkillSafari recognises and validates skills with the help of Open Badges and that way creates successful careers for people taking part. Read more, mark your calendar and join the webinar here.
Discendum is going to exhibit at the Esimies ja Henkilöstö 2018 fair for the first time on Sep. 4-5th. Leadership and personnel are at the centerpoint of the exhibition and the event has established its place among Finnish business leaders and personnel management professionals. The event is taking place at Messukeskus Helsinki.
This is an excellent opportunity to get to know our newest product Priima LMS. Versatile and adaptive Priima scales to any need and small as well as big training operations are easy to implement online.
In addition, we are exhibiting our Open Badge Factory platform that makes creating, issuing and managing Open Badges easy and efficient. Come and learn how you can make the skills and achievements of (e.g.) your staff visible in a modern way.
Check out our company page for the event here. You can find us at stand 3H18, see you there!
Discendum organises two online Open Badge courses in September 2018. Please note that the courses are in Finnish. Both OBF customers and non-customers are welcome to join!
Read more about Open Badge Osaaja basic course and sign up here.
Read more about Open Badge Osaaja expert course and sign up here.
Join our next OBF Academy webinar on Monday June 25 2018 at 2pm BST to hear how BMI Healthcare (UK) uses Open Badges to expose internal expertise. Because of badges, they have developed a better understanding of expertise and are ending silos between teams and locations.
Read more, mark your calendar and join the webinar here.
We have been developing and providing high quality online learning services for many years and we have always been strongly committed to offer the best data security and personal data protection to our customers. As a European service provider, we welcome the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”, 679/2016) and believe it brings transparency and trust in personal data processing.
To learn more, check out our FAQ section dedicated to GDPR.
We will also organise a GDPR webinar on our next OBF Academy on May 15 at 2pm GMT and hope that you can join us! Read more here.
We’re happy to announce that the awaited endorsement feature will be released on Tuesday Feb. 20!
This cool new feature makes it possible for OBF user organisations to endorse badges created by other OBF organisations as well as endorse single organisations.
Endorsement works so that an organisation asks other organisations to endorse them or their badges. The organisation giving endorsement has to be added to a partner network by the organisation asking for endorsement. The endorsing organisation can also endorse without the other organisation asking for it as long as they are added as a partner.
The possible endorsement will be visible in the badge’s information for the badge viewer.
There will be a free OBF Academy webinar about endorsement happening on Tuesday Feb. 27 at 2:00 pm GMT (9:00 am EST, 16:00 EET). Check details here and join!
One of the most anticipated Open Badge Factory features will be released very soon. We want everything to be perfect and up and running regarding our new endorsement feature.
Join our next OBF Academy webinar on Feb. 27 at 2:00 pm GMT to hear all about it. More info, how to join and time zones available here. See you!
Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport services will be under maintenance on October 31 from 7:00 am GMT to 2:00 pm GMT (9:00 EET - 16.00 EET). We’re sorry for any inconvenience!
Badge Finland network has gotten a logo and a brand! It’s possible to notice the shape of a snowflake with a modern twist in the logo and the clean colours also represent the beautiful country that is Finland.
Knowledge about Open Badges is spread across Finland with the help of Badge Finland network and it helps forwarding the implementation of the concept in all kinds of organisations. The network also has a big role in forwarding as well as supporting cooperation between different sectors.
The kickoff meeting of the Badge Finland network will be organised on Friday November 24 at 8.45-12.00 in MOW’s space in Helsinki. We hope you can join the awesome kickoff!
We organise two Open Badge online courses and one face-to-face training day for our customers and anyone interested this November. The other online course and the face-to-face training day are meant for Open Badge Beginners and they offer basic information regarding the concept and Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport platforms. The other online course is meant for Open Badge Experts and dives in a lot deeper and is more consultative. These courses are organised in Finnish.
Read more here and mark your calendar!
CEO David Porter and Program Manager Joanne Kehoe are from eCampusOntario, an edtech centre of excellence for the 45 publicly funded colleges and universities in Canada’s largest province. They are working with Don Presant, President of CanCred.ca, Canada’s Open Badges solution built on Open Badge Factory technology. David, Joanne and Don will describe the province-wide Sandbox they are building for colleges and universities to actively explore Open Badges in a collaborative framework.
Read more here and mark your calendar!
Join our free OBF Academy webinar on Monday, Sep. 25th, as Atish Gonsalves, Global Learning & Innovation Director, from Humanitarian Leadership Academy and Don Presant, President & Executive Producer, from Learning Agents will tell about the Humanitarian Passport Initiative and how digital Open Badges are being used across the humanitarian sector.
Read more here and mark your calendar!
Our Open Badge online training courses continue in September 2017. In addition to the basic course for beginners, we are introducing a new course for more advanced users. Both courses are in Finnish. If you’d like to read more and sign up, you can do it here for the basic course and here for the advanced course.
We’ve now published our newest service level called Enterprise. Enterprise is a stellar solution for serious badging and it serves especially big businesses, universities and associations that have multiple sub-organisations and different user groups to manage.
Enterprise customers get a lot of new features: csv reports, advertise badges in OBP, dedicated and branded Open Badge Passport, Badge Record Storage, sub-organisations and more.
Read more about Enterprise solution here and contact us for a quotation.
As the concept of Open Badges is spreading across the world, the standard has also been updated to version 2.0. We’re delighted to inform that our platforms Open Badge Factory (badge issuing platform) and Open Badge Passport (badge repository for users) will be updated to support the new standard on Friday June 16th at 8:00 am BST (03:00 am EDT, 10:00 am EEST).
In addition to supporting the new version of the standard, we have developed a new feature called multilingual badges that will be available after the update. This means that organisations can now create badges that support more than one language and badge viewers can read the badge information in different languages if available.
We have also done some minor bug fixes and improvements to both platforms and it will also be possible for Open Badge Passport users to start following other badge earners in the platform.
To hear more about this update, you can join our free OBF Academy webinar on Monday June 19th at 2:00 pm BST.
Got feedback? We’d love to hear from you! You can reach us through Twitter, @OBFactory_ and @OBPassport.
Summer is finally here and so are this year’s Badge Summit and ISTE Conference & Expo! Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport platforms will take part in both events.
Badge Summit will be held at ESC20 Training Center in San Antonio, Texas, on June 24. The aim of Badge Summit is to gather together different professionals and thinkers from K-12, Higher Education, Industry and Cultural institutions and elsewhere and link them with some of the most inspiring Open Badge thought leaders and service providers. It’s a day packed with interaction, networking, presentations, learning and sharing.
Open Badge Factory leader Eric Rousselle will take part in the Badge Issuing Platform Roundtables session as well as have a presentation later in the afternoon titled What Can I Do With My Badges? More information and tickets to the Badge Summit can be found here.
ISTE 2017 Conference and Expo will be held at Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, on June 25-28. This massive event is a globally recognised happening and brings together different professionals and service providers working in education. Around 18,000 attendees take part each year.
We will be exhibiting Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport from June 26-28 and attendees can find us at stand number 224. More information and tickets to the ISTE Conference & Expo can be found here. Welcome!
Organisations using Open Badge Factory are now able to advertise their badges in Open Badge Passport by making them visible in Passport’s Gallery > Apply for a badge page. The meaning of this new feature is to give organisations a new tool for advertising badges and making them more visible. Also, badges are better available for users and interesting new paths will open for them. This new feature is a feature in the upcoming Enterprise level but can now be used in all service levels for free until the end of 2017.
Organisations can advertise their badges in two ways:
1) Advertising the badge in Open Badge Passport
2) Advertising badge applications in Open Badge Passport
The badge / badge application has to be ready for issuing / active so that it’s possible to advertise the badge / badge application in Open Badge Passport.
Go ahead and advertise your first badges already today!
Great news! We are organising two Open Badge training sessions free of charge in Tampere and Helsinki during February and March this year.
Participants will learn about the concept of Open Badges, how to start designing and implementing your organisation’s badge ecosystem and more.
Tampere session: Feb. 17th
Helsinki session: Mar. 24th
Check out the training session details here and register now! Both of these training sessions are in Finnish.
Open Badge Factory and National University of Ireland, Galway, are organizing a free Open Badge workshop on December 8th. If your organization has just started to use Open Badges or you’re thinking about it, this is the right event for you.
Participants will hear about the concept of Open Badges, interesting case presentations from NUI Galway and others as well as learn how to create and issue and Open Badge using Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport services.
Agenda:
What are Open Badges?
Case studies: Higher education and beyond
Designing, issuing and earning Open Badges
Register for the workshop by Thursday Dec. 1st here.
OBF will be updated on Tuesday Sep. 27th at 16:30 EEST. The maintenance will take about one hour.
The content of the update:
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Next webinar is on Monday 10 October at 15:00 / 3pm CEST (14:00 / 2pm BST).
Welcome to our very first OBF Academy webinar of fall 2016! In this webinar, we will go through some of the most recent features that have been added to OBF.
The emphasis will be on badge applications and on the different ways on how to evaluate them (for example peer assessment). Badge applications feature is one of the most used feature in Open Badge Factory.
The 14th ePIC conference will be held in Bologna, Italy, at the beautiful Palazzo Gnudi on Oct. 26.-28.
Participants will hear interesting presentations about ePortfolios, Open Badges, Blockchains and much more. It is also possible to take part in different workshops at the conference.
The CEO of Discendum and the leader of our Open Badges team, Eric Rousselle, will take an active part in the conference. Our platform Open Badge Factory is also sponsoring the event.
You can find more information about ePIC here. You still have time to register and participate!
Next OBF Academy webinar will be on Tuesday May 31 at 13:00 GMT.
Jenni Meriläinen, Adviser for Lahti University of Applied Sciences, will tell how Open Badges have been utilized as a new, more flexible and nuanced way of acknowledging the learning and skills of students and staff members. For students, Open Badges have been used mainly as a supplement to the existing credential structure to recognise student achievements in a more nuanced way and to signal finer-grained skills. Lahti UAS is also utilizing Open Badges as a way of promoting staff competence and professional development.
How to join and more info at OBF academy
We are coming to the United States for the very first time this summer!
You can catch us first in Aurora, Colorado at the 2016 Digital Badge Summit on Friday June 24. The Summit gathers together around 300 Digital Badge leaders, practitioners and enthusiasts. Our Open Badges team leader Eric Rousselle talked to Noah Geisel (Badge Summit) about Open Badges, check out the interview here. Read more about the Digital Badge Summit here and sign up now!
Second - we will be exhibiting in Denver, Colorado at the ISTE 2016 Conference & Expo from Monday June 27 to Wednesday 29. About ISTE: “Groundbreaking ideas are shared, new learning technologies are unveiled and collaborations form that will impact classrooms everywhere.”. Read more here and sign up!
We hope to see you in Colorado this summer! If you’re coming, let us know by tweeting us: @OBFactory_
Welcome to our new Open Badge Factory website. Looks neat, right?
We hope the new website gives you more information that is easier to find.
Let us know what you think of the new look in Twitter!
Next OBF Academy webinar will be on Tuesday 22 March at 14:00 GMT (15:00 CET).
Iain Mac Labhrainn, Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching at the NUI Galway, will talk about digital skills and what is the role of Open Badges in that area. He will talk about their big national project and the badge applications include: recognising student volunteering; academic staff development; study skills and employability.
Great chance to hear and learn about Open Badges and how they are being used by different organisations. The seminar will be organised in Helsinki on 15th March 2016.
NB! The seminar will be held in Finnish.
Make sure you join our very first webinar dedicated to the Salava project on Tuesday March 1st at 14:00 GMT (9:00 am EST).
Learn more about Salava - the open source community edition of Open Badge Passport - connect with others and start sharing ideas on how to further develop Open Badge Passport. Anyone from users to developers are welcome to take part!
Have you just started using Open Badge Factory or just need some guidance? Our next webinar will be a great place for you to start getting to know our platform better, get some tips and ask questions!
We would like to hear your thoughts on this as well if you have some questions already in mind. You can send them our way through Twitter: @OBFactory_ and we’ll answer them in this webinar!