1. Eric Rousselle, CEO, Open Badge Factory
1.12.2020
UPDATES ON OPEN BADGE FACTORY AND OPEN
BADGE PASSPORT DEVELOPMENT

2. The main topics in our development strategy
• Development in collaboration with our customers
(open innovation)
• Supporting the creation of badge ecosystems
• Unlocking the potential of badges for their owners and
their communities
• Supporting competence management with badges
• Improving user experience

3. OBF Development in 2020
• Integration with ESCO - The Classification of European Skills,
Competences, Qualifications and Occupations.
• PDF badges
• Tools for sharing several badges and badge applications as
links or copies
• Improvements: sub-organizations, the grouping of users and
badges and editing and issuing rights on badges and badge
applications

4. OBP development in 2020
• Every user can create and issue badges or selfie badges
• External endorsements
• Improvements of the “Explore” section’s features
• Spaces
• Mobile application
• Deeper integration of OBP and OBF

5. Open Badge Passport spaces

7. Open Badge Passport’s mobile app

17. What next?

18. On the top of OBF’s roadmap
• Launch of “Spaces” service at the beginning of 2021 and
development of new space related services
• Visualization of learning pathways (Metro map)
• Badge Connect (the connection between Passports)
• Further development of OBP mobile app
• Parental management for OBF under 15 years old users

19. OBF upcoming development
• Enhanced reports, tracking and visualisation tools (OBF
Enterprise)
• Improvement of PDF badges and badge sharing features
• Further development of badge applications (form and
assessment methods)
• API development for better integration with OBP and other
systems.

20. Thank you!

21. For more information:
eric.rousselle@obfsolutions.com
contact@openbadgefactory.com
@OBFactory_
@OBPassport