- From: Steve Midgley <steve.midgley.mixrun@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:59:49 -0700
- To: Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-schema-course-extend@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAJexoSKbt8DQ-60YtAonYhp+R_US+3i=7=f=DU3fd9rtRrVDXQ@mail.gmail.com>
+1 accreditation comes with too much industry baggage.. I don't agree that using "credential", but limiting it to education in values works because some credentials in other industries are totally unrelated to this approach so I don't feel like we solve the distinct namespaces issue. Correct me if I'm missing something. Steve On Jun 20, 2016 5:45 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 >> >> >> > > -- > -- > 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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