schema-course-extend: credential or award offered through course.

Hello all, [apologies if you receive this twice, the message I sent 
yesterday seems to have disappeared]

We have a use case for the schema course extension that user should be 
able to find a course that offers a qualification the searcher would 
like to acquire hence a requirement that it must be able to identify the 
qualification offered to those completing a course, see 
http://bit.ly/sce-us2 .

The current proposal has a grantsCredential property of Course with 
expected (but undefined) type of Credential see, 
http://course.schema-course-extend.appspot.com/grantsCredential

There has been quite an involved discussion on github over the last few 
weeks around how to describe credentials, starting at 
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195#issuecomment-220588244 
The modelling of qualifications, awards, credentials clearly goes beyond 
the modelling of courses and is being addressed else where (see the git 
hub conversation for references to Credential Transparency Initiative, 
OpenBadges, blockchain in credentialling etc.)

I would like to gauge opinion on two issues:
1. the name credential is proving problematic as to many it associates 
with security credential, cryptography, etc. It would be useful to find 
an alternative.

2. What is the minimum that we need to do in order to deal with the link 
from Courses to credential/qualification/award offered in such a way 
that it meets our use case and can be picked up by those looking 
specifically at educational credentials.

Bear in mind Richard Wallis's advice of last week concerning "what 
should be in Course 1.0" where he advises that fine detail be left for 
future refinements. 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schema-course-extend/2016Jun/0015.html 


I am hoping that the answer is something like a property of course 
called something like grantsCredential or offersEducationalAward which 
has an expected type text or CreativeWork or a named but otherwise empty 
subtype of CreativeWork.


Phil


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Received on Thursday, 16 June 2016 08:41:00 UTC