EOCred: link to course

Hello all. Two things in this email, first a tweak to a use case and its 
requirements, second a proposal to use the 
schema:educationalCredentialAwarded 
<http://pending.schema.org/educationalCredentialAwarded> property of 
Course to relate EducationalOccupationalCredentials to Courses (without 
creating a new property as an inverse of that one).


We have a use case relating to secondary search for learning resources 
and courses 
<https://www.w3.org/community/eocred-schema/wiki/Use_Cases#Learning_resources_and_Courses>, 
that is:

    Having found an educational or occupational credential, and possibly
    identified the competencies required to obtain that credential, an
    individual wants to search for materials, courses or other things
    that will help them acquire those competencies.

The derived requirement is the ability to show relationship between 
educational / occupational credential objects and descriptions or 
representations of Courses (and maybe other learning resources)

I think that in the course of our discussions about providing 
information about the cost of attaining an educational occupational 
credential we came close to solving this.

But first,*I think the use case & requirement need a bit of a tweak. *On 
reflection learning resources will be less important, and we should 
mention the possibility of finding Assessments. My thinking on learning 
resources is that these will be linked to via common competence 
requirements / learning objectives. SO, I would rephrase the use case as:

    Having found an educational or occupational credential, and possibly
    identified the competencies required to obtain that credential, an
    individual wants to search for courses or assessments that lead to
    that credential, or other things that will help them acquire the
    competencies required.

And I would list the requirements as

  * the ability to show relationship between educational / occupational
    credentials and descriptions or representations of Courses
  * the ability to show relationship between educational / occupational
    credentials and descriptions or representations of Assessments
  * the ability to show relationship between competencies required for
    educational / occupational credentials and descriptions or
    representations of learning resources

Please let me know whether that seems reasonable.

Proposal for*linking Educational Occupational Credentials to Courses*
I have drafted a proposal 
<https://www.w3.org/community/eocred-schema/wiki/User:Philbarker/Draft:Link_educational_occupational_credentials_to_courses#Draft_code_for_schema.org> 
for the first of these based on our discussion of costs

It is based on using the schema:educationalCredentialAwarded 
<http://pending.schema.org/educationalCredentialAwarded> property of 
Course either in a separate object representing the Course and linking 
back to the credential, or using RDFa or JSON-LD syntax to use this 
property in reverse.

Please let me know what you think,
Phil

[current usecase] 
https://www.w3.org/community/eocred-schema/wiki/Use_Cases#Learning_resources_and_Courses

[draft prosal] 
https://www.w3.org/community/eocred-schema/wiki/User:Philbarker/Draft:Link_educational_occupational_credentials_to_courses#Draft_code_for_schema.org

[schema:educationalCredentialAwarded] 
http://pending.schema.org/educationalCredentialAwarded

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