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

In the Credential Transparency Initiative (CTI) there is an AccreditAction
by a qualified authority with a resulting quality assurance credential
(i.e., a specific subtype of credential) to be awarded to qualifying
organizations seeking to award credentials of a specific subtype--e.g., to
award Degree >> AssociateDegree).

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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