- From: Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:43:54 +0100
- To: public-schema-course-extend@w3.org
On 20/06/16 13:30, Stuart Sutton wrote: > Dan, accreditation is not a particularly good choice. In many/most > contexts of education (at least in the US), the focus of accreditation > is institutions that seek accreditation to award credentials of some > type. Thus authoritative Body "A" might accredit Body "B" to award > Credential "C". See. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accreditation. > +1. In the UK accreditation is also as Stuart describes. See for example http://www.bcs.org/category/5844 Phil > Stuart > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com > <mailto:danbri@google.com>> wrote: > > On 17 June 2016 at 17:32, Steve Midgley > <steve@learningtapestry.com <mailto: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 > > -- -- Phil Barker @philbarker LRMI, Cetis, ICBL http://people.pjjk.net/phil Heriot-Watt University Ubuntu: http://xkcd.com/456/ not so much an operating system as a learning opportunity.
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