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

P: educationalCredentialAwarded
d: Course
r: {Text, Thing}

Should this be

P: credentialAwarded
d:
r: {Credential, CredentialInstance}

P: educationalCredentialAwarded  (subPropertyOf) credentialAwarded
d: Course
r: {EducationalCredential, CredentialInstance}

...

Credential > EducationalCredential > Degree
Credential > EducationalCredential > Degree > BachelorDegree
Credential > EducationalCredential > Certificate
Credential > EducationalCredential > Certification
Credential > EducationalCredential > Badge > OpenBadge
Credential > EducationalCredential > Badge > cert-schema (OpenBadge +
blockchain)

*Are there instances where e.g. Certificate, Certification, and Badge*
*are not EducationalCredentials*
*(just regular Credentials)?*

So,
EducationalCredential may be more useful as an annotation class?

CTI models this as credType, which requires a WHERE _ IN query to list
things of this type (because there's no expansions of class lineage without
Enumerated classes which are a subClassOf e.g. Credential or
EducationalCredential or Degree or Certificate):
* https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195#issuecomment-222379559

Scope justification:
- https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195#issuecomment-223663304

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 20/06/16 12:26, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> OK. As property name I am going to suggest educationalCredentialAwarded
> because we might in the future want EducationalCredential as a class name.
>
> So, my proposal is that in order to meet the use case that people can
> search for courses that offers a qualification the searcher would like to
> acquire we create a new property
>
> educationalCredentialAwarded domain Course, range Text or Thing.
> Definition: a description of the qualification, award, certificate,
> diploma or other educational credential awarded as a consequence of
> successful completion of this course.
>
> When the educational credentials/verifiable claims community have sorted
> out how they want to describe their domain in schema.org then I hope we
> will have some more specific schema type(s) that we can point to, but for
> now this seems to me to be good enough to solve the use case. Solving the
> bigger issue seems beyond the scope of this community group.
>
>
> Phil
>
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