- From: W3C CCG Chairs <w3c.ccg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:41:30 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks to Jim Goodell for scribing this week! The minutes for this week's CCG Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force telecon are now available: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2020-06-29/ Full text of the discussion follows for W3C archival purposes. Audio from the meeting is available as well (link provided below). ---------------------------------------------------------------- CCG Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Telecon Minutes for 2020-06-29 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Jun/0198.html Topics: 1. Introductions & Reintroductions 2. US Dept of Education Blockchain in Education Report Organizer: Kim Hamilton Duffy and Wayne Chang and Heather Vescent Scribe: Jim Goodell Present: Jim Goodell, James Chartrand, Kim Hamilton Duffy, Simone Ravaoli, Stuart Freeman, Lluís Alfons Ariño, Jim Kelly, J. Philipp Schmidt, Laura Jaurequi, Kerri Lemoie, Chris Winczewski, Andy Thomas, Adam Lemmon, Mary Strain, David Ward, Ganesh Annan, Joshua Marks, Victoria Feng, Loïc Jeannin, Juan Caballero, Christopher Allen, Dmitri Zagidulin, Karen O'Donoghue, Matt Lisle, Taylor Kendall, Tzviya Siegman, Wayne Vaughn Audio: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2020-06-29/audio.ogg Jim Goodell: @Kimhd - I will scribe today Jim Goodell is scribing. Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/join Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/ Topic: Introductions & Reintroductions Mary Strain Highland Credentials - supporting HE verifiable credenatil Andy Miller IMS Global - supporting CLR & Open Badges, etc. Jim Kelly - Formerly ECE, currently ind. consultant and chair of PESC board, was tech advisor on ILE (now LER) Wrapper spec Victoria - competency-based digital credentials, help international applicants to reduce process time Kerri Lemoie will talk about recent US ED report ... Topic: US Dept of Education Blockchain in Education Report Kerri Lemoie: Project part of phase 1 of Ed Blockchain project Kerri Lemoie: What is going in in the ecosystem to inform a challenge, to be launched soon Kerri Lemoie: 40 Entities/experts interviews, lit review, online research Kerri Lemoie: Findings - 70 active initiatives, many in pilot stages, many academic and digital credentials, blockcerts Joshua Marks: I was supposed to scribe today, but got waylaid. WHo is scribing? Kerri Lemoie: Newer efforts using hyper-ledger, portfolios, CVs, prof. evaluations, identity protection, etc. Kerri Lemoie: This is a top priority - many understand this is important, and 2nd big theme was life-long-learning Kerri Lemoie: 3Rd theme - connecting ecosystems Kerri Lemoie: Many credentials not being used, need more success in leveraging power of connected ecosystems Kerri Lemoie: Underuse of digital credentials...lot of issuing, not use Kerri Lemoie: Questions remain - what does it mean to control? Kerri Lemoie: Digital divide - 29% dont't have smart phones, 46% don't have computers...need to consider who can't access digital creds. Kerri Lemoie: Can we find ways to pilot with groups that don't currently have access Kerri Lemoie: Standards still in development...good we are workingnn together to move forward. Kerri Lemoie: Privacy by design Kerri Lemoie: More adoption in higher ed than in K12 (some transcript uses in high schools)... Question is what value this brings beyond the status quo Victoria Feng: How long will it take for usage to take off? Kerri Lemoie: Open Badges has been in existence over a decade and is still underutilized... pilots for a couple more years, then not sure Kerri Lemoie: Directory of efforts: https://usedgov.github.io/blockchain/directory J. Philipp Schmidt: Asking about tension between centralized platform business models vs. decentralized models and self-sovereign J. Philipp Schmidt: Thank you! Kerri Lemoie: Business models not yet fully considered for decentralized...pilots often in private networks Kim Hamilton Duffy: What problems do solutions solve... interesting that many pilots are in private networks... What was your read on nuance behind "why" using blockchain? Loïc Jeannin: I'd like to ask a question, what is the process ? :) Kerri Lemoie: I think many are looking at centralized models, considering characteristics of blockchain that are useful (e.g. verification), but not enough use cases ....then can consider how Kim Hamilton Duffy: Recommendation from report: focus on ecosystems Kerri Lemoie: Other main use case is to encourage use of standards Kerri Lemoie: Greenlight is a private network that is working well because it improves processes for students, e.g to apply for college Kerri Lemoie: In Open Badges we said "It's not about the badge" , about how it is used Kim Hamilton Duffy: Q about Dalas Comm. College and Greenlight Kerri Lemoie: Joe May (sp?) started with seeing challenges for students to apply for multiple colleges Kim Hamilton Duffy: Interesting to see use case around student needs
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