Re: schema-course-extend: credential or award offered through course. from Dan Brickley on 2016-06-20 (public-schema-course-extend@w3.org from June 2016)

From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:26:27 +0100
To: Steve Midgley <steve@learningtapestry.com>
Cc: public-schema-course-extend@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAK-qy=4it4E0zZb8WCYharqp=UQgrTbsTgTam4EZd=NLUOc7UQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 17 June 2016 at 17:32, Steve Midgley <steve@learningtapestry.com> wrote:
> I agree that credential has many meanings across industries. I agree we
> should try to find a term that unambiguously locates this credential as
> educational. So, being a frequent simpleton, I'll suggest
> "educationalCredential"

This is an improvement.

A friend I was talking to over the weekend suggested using the related
term "accreditation". How does that sound to this community? To my
ears it has all the right associations, and is much less evocative of
lower-level technical notions of credential...

Dan

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