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

IMHO, there would be value in a broad definition of a Credential class that
is inclusive of these various meanings and communities of practice--from
crypto to education--and then support contextual subclassing. The concern
here is with subclasses of Credential that address some aspect of education
(e.g., Degrees, Certificate, Badges etc.)...but they are nevertheless
subclasses of Credential.

That said, I am still very much in favor of doing what Phil suggests in
simply getting Course handled and then let these finer issues of slicing
and dicing the credential environment be handled by folks looking at that
context as a specific problem.

Stuart

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Steve Midgley <
steve.midgley.mixrun@gmail.com> wrote:

> +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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>>
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