Webmaker/Badges/Roadmap

	Badges 2013 Roadmap
	Owner: Erin Knight	Updated: 2013-02-5
	Vision: Digital badges provide an exciting new way to get recognition for skills, achievements and civic engagement across the web.

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2013 Story

• Make badges valuable, usable and real.
• Provide pathways for web literacy.
• Document and celebrate.

BADGES IN 2013

Top level objectives:

• Make badges valuable 
  • Provide scaffolding and framework for badge validation and learning standards behind the badge
    • badge validation technical and social features
    • Web literacy standard
• Make badges usable
  • Backpack improvements / enhancements
  • Consumption work / develop partnerships
• Make badges real
  • big proofs of concepts including Chicago, SF and Mozilla 
• Provide badge pathways for web literacy
  • assessments and associated badges
• Documentation and celebration
  • use cases
  • voice

Webmaker Badges in 2013

Top Level Goals

• Build the Web literacy standard
  • More definition and details on web literacy
  • Create a community around it, generate accountability and support
  • Get people to align with it and issue badges linked back to the standard
  • Establish our standard as a foundational standard
• Launch more badges
  • Covering more skills
    • Covering the entire web literacy stack by the end of 2013 or decide on the scope of Mozilla literacy badges
    • Will require work from the content development team to cover some of these skills, as well as software team to build more hooks for badges into our tools
  • Covering more types
    • Within Webmaker: social/peer badges
    • Other Mozilla badges: Engagement, IT, Mozillians, etc.
• Provide users with tools for goal setting, learning discovery, mentorship, etc.
  • This may overlap with efforts for the "new Backpack", building this into the Backpack itself instead of Webmaker.org
  • Develop feedback mechanism that allow earner's to respond to / vote badges
• Finalize and codify assessment mechanisms and pathways
  • Assessment Widgets and APIs
    • Skill-level mini assessments tied to a particular badge
    • Partners can push learners back to Mozilla for the assessment/badge or use the APIs to pull into their sites and learning environments
  • Peer assessment:
    • Pledging for badges, following/notifications around badges for assessors, ability to rate the work against a rubric
    • Should be able to submit a link to something you made outside of Mozilla and get assessed/our badges / other partner badges can act as equivalents to Mozilla webmaker badges 
      
      

Webmaker Badges Roadmap

Q1

• Web literacy standard kick off (Feb/Mar)
  • webinar first week of Feb (create awareness, get people excited, start to build the community around this)
  • summit in March - invite only, f2f meeting(s) to advance the standard and get people aligning with it
  • formally launch / release the standard at DML?
• Mozilla badges: web stewards pilot
  
  

Q2

• Launch second wave of badges (April)
  • covering a wider set of the web literacy skills
  • focusing on some of the softer skills
  • covering things that we're already teaching or feel are really important for offering the foundations of web literacy
  • tied to initial prototypes of assessments
• Launch peer assessment functionality (April)
  • pledging, assessing/rating, awarding
• Continued standard iteration and partner recruitment
  
  

Q3

• Launch MVP of assessment pathways and API
• Roll out next set of web literacy badges
• Launch larger Mozilla badge system with connected groups of badges (engagement, mozillians, IT)
• WebmakerX badge integration - seamless badges across WebmakerX experience
  
  

Q4

• Launch Dashboard / New Backpack
• Launch full Assessment pathways
• Launch full set of badges covering web literacy skills, including Mozilla badges and other partner badges

Open Badge Infrastructure / Open Badges in 2013

Top Level Goals:

• Improve UX of the Backpack and OBI experience
• Launch OBI 1.0 with critical features like endorsement, signed badges, etc.
• Reframe Open Badges as a standards body
• Kickstart / support badge validation system
• Kickstart consumption conversation and work
• Launch large scale proof of concepts (Chicago and SF)
  
  

Open Badges Roadmap

Q1

• Publish badge validation paper
• Release rev on openbadges.org
• Ocupop engagement on the Backpack UX

Q2

• Launch OBI 1.0 (DML Conference)
  • updated Backpack with 508 compliance
  • signed badges
  • endorsement features
  • badge revocation / expiration
  • autopush of badges
  • extended spec
  • criteria page standards/builder - LRMI
• Launch DML competition badge systems (DML Conference)
• Launch badge validation implementation (April-May)
  • endorsement APIs, social interfaces (matchmaking? etc)
  • lightweight reporting 
• Launch badge community platform (April-May)
  
  

Q3

• Launch Chicago badges
• Release OpenBadger 1.0
• Launch Badge discovery solution
  • Reporting
  • Discovery interfaces (through the Backpack, other tools)
• Launch Badge commitments at CGI America
• Release suite of consumption Tools - resume builder, portfolio view, etc. (June)
• BadgeCon? - conference for badge community
  
  

Q4

• Launch SF badges
• Release support for Backpack Federation