8:00 am

Registration & continental breakfast - Velvet Underground

9:00-12:00 pm

aQTI

Apollo Boardroom

Competency-Based Education and Extended Transcript

Avalon II

Adaptive to Adaptable Learning

Avalon III

OneRoster

Avalon I

12:00 pm

Lunch - Velvet Underground

1:00 pm-5:00 pm

aQTI

Competency-Based Education and Extended Transcript

Implementing Caliper: Step by Step Approaches

8:00 am

Welcome

• Rob Abel, CEO, 1EdTech

Opening Keynote: Notable Successes and Challenges for Open Badges

Open Badges' pioneer, Sheryl Grant is Director of Social Networking for the Digital Media and Learning Competition and Director of Alternative, Micro-Credential, and Badging Research for HASTAC.  Sheryl will share her recent research on the growing digital credentials ecosystem and offer her call to action to the community. 

• Sheryl Grant, Director of Alternative Credentials and Badge Research, HASTAC

Issuing Organizations: Innovators Using Digital Credentials and Badges for Academic and Co-Curricular Credentials

Innovators are unbundling education with digital badges. Hear how learners can selectively improve their skills for credit and lifelong learning. Going beyond the use of badges for participation, innovators are getting serious about the role of digital badges in stackable micro-credentials that meet the market of learners where they are.  Innovative institutions will share their badge program essentials and provide advice on how you can follow their lead and learn from their experience.

Moderated by Kyle Peck, Professor and Research Fellow in College of Education, Penn State University

• John Buzzard, Professional and Continuing Education Division, Oregon State University
• Kim Moore, Director, Workforce, Professional and Community Education, Wichita State University
• Timothy Newby, Professor Learning Design, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University
• Brenda Perea, Project Manager, Colorado Community College System

Employers: Recruiting and Developing Staff via Competencies and Digital Credentials

A principal catalyst for momentum behind open badges is the potential for badges to empower learners in their work careers by providing clear and verifiable statements of what the learner knows and can do, expressed in language that addresses employers' needs.  Hear about efforts on the "demand side", and how major employers view competencies and digital credentials in their talent acquisition and development strategies.

Moderated by Jason Tyszko, Executive Director of Policy, Education and Workforce, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

• Tim Aldinger, Director of Workforce Development Services, Foundation for California Community Colleges
• David Leaser, Senior Program Manager, Innovation and Growth Initiatives, IBM
• Matthew Pittinsky, CEO, Parchment
• Laurence Roth, Education Designer and Partner, Education Design Lab

1EdTech Digital Credentials and Badges: Plans and Priorities for 2017

• Mark Leuba, Vice President, Product Development, 1EdTech

Using Open Badges in K-12 and Professional Development

As an emerging professional development strategy, micro-credentials enable educators to identify, recognize and share their best practices, so teachers can hone their skills and learn new ones.  Hear from leading K-12 districts, states and extracurricular programs that are recognizing teacher and student achievements in new and exciting ways.

Moderated by Sheryl Grant, Director of Alternative, Micro-Credential, and Badging Research for HASTAC 

• Tim Cook, Senior Manager, Product and Customer Success, LRNG Cities of Learning by Collective Shift
• Noah Geisel, Badge Consultant, Aurora Public Schools 
• Jay Heap, Director of Virtual Learning, Georgia Department of Education
• Cate Tolnai, Academic Technology Specialist, Santa Clara County Office of Education 

Open Badge Platform Suppliers: Using Open Standards to Connect Educators, Learners and Employers

Hear from a group of digital credential market leaders share what they see as the future of the open badges ecosystem and what their products will do to support connecting educators, learners and employers through open standard, verifiable digital credentials.  

• Acclaim - Peter Janzow, Senior Director Business and Market Development, Open Badges Lead at Pearson VUE
• Concentric Sky - Wayne Skipper, Chief Executive Officer 
• Credly - John Walber, Chief Operating Officer
• Learning Machine - Chris Jagers, Chief Executive Officer
• Portfolium - Adam Markowitz, Chief Executive Officer

The Blockchain in Education for Digital Credentials and Badges

Presented by Chris Jagers,  Co-Founder and CEO, Learning Machine

The blockchain provides a new technical infrastructure of trust that is used to store an unalterable history of transactions. Issuing official records to students is an example of a transaction that can be cryptographically signed, permanently recorded on the blockchain, and independently verified by anyone granted access to a record. Examples of these learner-controlled records could include documents such as diplomas, transcripts and certificates as well as data-rich digital credentials including extended transcripts and badges. The presentation will illustrate how this technology works, how it protects student privacy, and how it can be implemented today.

Next Steps to Accelerate the Evolution of Digital Credentials

In October 2016, Mozilla, Collective Shift and 1EdTech signalled their mutual commitment to digital credentials and Open Badges with the announcement that the management of the Open Badges specification would transition to 1EdTech management, where badge ecosystem stakeholders and market leaders can contribute to its evolution. Hear from the principal decision makers about this transition and their expectations for the future of Open Badges.

• Rob Abel, CEO, 1EdTech

• Mark Surman, Executive Director, The Mozilla Foundation

• Connie Yowell, CEO, Collective Shift  

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8:00 am

Registration & continental breakfast

9:00-12:00 pm

Open Badges Community
*open to the public with registration

Apollo Boardroom

Machine Readable Framework for Learning Standards and Competencies (Joint Meeting)

The Pantry

LTI Services Task Force

Avalon III

 Closed Meeting

Filmore Meeting Room

12:00 pm

Lunch 

1:00 pm-5:00 pm

Digital Credentials and Badges Executive Board

Apollo Boardroom

Machine Readable Framework for Learning Standards and Competencies (Joint Meeting)

LTI Services Task Force

8:00 am

Registration & continental breakfast - Velvet Underground

9:00-12:00 pm

LTI Integration Showcase

Avalon III

Caliper Core

Fillmore Meeting Room

Open Badges Working Group 

The Pantry

Closed

Apollo Board Room

12:00 pm

Lunch - Velvet Underground

1:00 pm-5:00 pm

LTI Integration Showcase

Caliper Core

Open Badges Working Group