Re: EOCred: cost of a credential

+1

I would just add, for those not familiar with Offer
<http://schema.org/Offer> a *Thing* [an EducationalOccupationalCredential
in this case] can be the subject of multiple *offers*.  Also Offer has an
offeredBy <http://schema.org/offeredBy> property linking to the
offering organisation or person.

These enable use cases of an organisation offering the same
*EducationalOccupationalCredent**ial* at differing costs to different
subjects with differing eligibility and; 3rd parties listing disparate
organisations offering the same *EducationalOccupationalCredent**ial*.

~Richard

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On 26 January 2018 at 10:40, Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk> wrote:

> I want to try and keep some momentum by doing some of the quick and easy
> use cases while we discuss the more difficult ones. I think this is one:
>
> Cost
> Having found a credential it should be possible to identify the cost of
> acquiring the credential.
>
> Requires: ability to show relevant cost for educational / occupational
> credential objects
> Note: this implies that a credential is offered
>
> This is the cost of the credential itself, not the cost of courses,
> training or other things required in order to earn the credential (these
> costs can be shown when describing those other things).
>
> schema.org has means for specifying the cost of things with the offers
> <http://schema.org/offers> property which we could use. If
> EducationalOccupationalCredential is a CreativeWork, then we already have
> the offers property (if it is not, we may need change the domain of the
> existing offers property)
>
> A simple example
>
> {
>   "@context": "http://schema.org/" <http://schema.org/>,
>   "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
>   "url" : "https://www.alt.ac.uk/certified-membership"
> <https://www.alt.ac.uk/certified-membership>,
>   "name": "CMALT",
>   "description": "Certified Membership of the Association for Learning
> Technology",
>   "offers": {
>     "@type": "Offer",
>     "name": "Registration fee (UK)",
>     "price": "150",
>     "priceCurrency": "GBP"
>   }
> }
>
> Offers <http://schema.org/Offer> can get quite complex, allowing
> different currencies, different offers for different regions, add on offers
> etc.  I think it would cover our needs adequately; the only potential
> problem I can see is that eligibleCustomerType as defined is too
> restrictive to provide information like "special price for military
> veterans". My approach to this would be to 1) raise this as an issue with
> schema.org. 2) provide text values anyway (schema.org allows this)
>
> Any objections? Have I missed anything?
>
> Phil
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