+1 for 'focus on light'...
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Nate Otto <nate@ottonomy.net> wrote:
> Hugh,
>
> Indeed one of our driving forces in believing in pathways being made up of
> the objectives, not the credentials, is that this allows the pathway
> structure to change more gradually and less destructively as educational
> opportunities and specific credentials become available and unavailable.
> Corporate training/onboarding & job profiles for employment postings are
> strong use cases for us as we implement these ideas. We intend to grow the
> Open Pathways data model to be able to cover requirements as complex as
> university degree requirements eventually, and that is a domain that is far
> more complex to model than what might be expressed as "otherRequirements"
> in schema.org. We may greatly benefit by delaying modeling the full
> complexity of credential systems' requirements in schema.org and only
> focus on light descriptive (human-focused) metadata for now.
>
> Nate
>
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