Support for Verifiable Claims at W3C

I’ve reviewed the Verifiable Claims Task Force charter and whole-heartedly support this work.

Over the past decades I’ve been an enterprise architect across different industry verticals including utilities, transportation, insurance, and banking.  In the past decade I’ve focused entirely on education, particularly on educational interoperability between educational institutions and learning tools.  I’ve served as chief integration architect for CourseSmart and VitalSource Technologies, each dominant platforms for electronic textbooks (now merged).  I’m served as Chief Product Architect for IMSGlobal Learning Consortium. I continue to consult with VitalSource and various IMS Global member companies.

VCTF addresses the central problem for new learning modes such as MOOCs, schools that provide distance learning, or schools that support fine-grained education in specific competencies.   These institutions all require a standard way to request and exchange educational learning credentials.  These credentials may be coarse-grained credentials such as diplomas.  But they can also be much finer-grained micro-credentials, nano-degrees, are trusted statements of accrued competencies.

I will continue to review this work as it evolves.

Regards,

John Tibbetts
Consultant, Kinexis