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VC for Education Task Force

Transcript for 2024-02-19

Agenda
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vc-edu/2024Feb/0001.html
Organizer
Simone Ravaioli, Dmitri Zagidulin, Ildiko Mazar
Scribe
Our Robot Overlords
Present
Simone Ravaoli, Geun-Hyung, Dmitri Zagidulin, Nis Jespersen , Deb Everhart, Stuart Freeman, Phil Barker, Laura Paglione, Kaliya Young, David Ward, Jeff O - HumanOS
Audio Log
Our Robot Overlords are scribing.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Yeah that sounds that looks good.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Yep there it is okay uh let's give it 1 more minute and uh we'll kick it off with 3 past the hour.
Dmitri Zagidulin: All right uh 3 3 minutes past the hour welcome everyone let's kick it off.
Dmitri Zagidulin: This is the weekly.
Dmitri Zagidulin: VC edu call uh we going to discuss switching to weekly from previous bi-weekly regime just to lessen uh attendee confusion.
Dmitri Zagidulin: In any case these these calls are being recorded.
Dmitri Zagidulin: These calls are free for anyone to join if uh.
Dmitri Zagidulin: You want to contribute to any of the specs we're working on uh you do want to join the w3c credentials community group.
Dmitri Zagidulin: And sign the IP waiver uh but again you can listen in on the calls um without doing that.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Uh what else uh.
Dmitri Zagidulin: This uh group operates by the code of conduct etc etc.
Dmitri Zagidulin: This call where we're extremely pleased to uh to announce uh wider uh a new co-chair joining us so now bringing up the number of co-chairs to 3 that's myself that's Simona reboli and now Ile De Kazar.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Yeah welcome welcome.
Dmitri Zagidulin: So let's see uh Simone uh.
Dmitri Zagidulin: I want to hand hand it over to you if uh if you're in a place where you can talk otherwise I'll.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Continue and and hand it over to Ico.
<ildiko_mazar_(elm)> :slightly_smiling_face:
<deb_everhart_(credential_engine)> welcome to the co-chair role!
<deb_everhart_(credential_engine)> yay, thank you!
<kaliya_identity_woman> I cant here anything
<dmitri_zagidulin> @kaliya - try switching browser or machine. sorry bout that.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Yeah so uh.
Dmitri Zagidulin: I want to I want to talk about uh.
Dmitri Zagidulin: European learning Model A little bit so 1 of the things that I'd really love for us to do in this group in 2024 is to really highlight.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Trajectories uh the North American versus European versus Pacifica.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Uh verify credentials communities are taking with regards to.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Credential schemas right so so my question is is twofold uh.
Dmitri Zagidulin: 1 Could you say a couple words about the trajectories of the different communities that you seeing.
Dmitri Zagidulin: In this mapping project which again is very exciting I'm really glad that it's going on do you think will will arrive at a place where.
Dmitri Zagidulin: The credentials are largely.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Equivalent in the sense that you can map between them yeah I'll start with that and I'm glad to see um Deb on the queue as well.
<deb_everhart_(credential_engine)> detailed documentation of the micro-credential mapping project https://docs.google.com/document/d/172umnUUU7Dix230FjfSUNUD1GYCkFIqD93WeWzr4_yQ/edit#heading=h.iaoab75j1kxc
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): Yeah sure mostly I wanted to say thank you um I think I you Dove right into the schema mapping and um I'm really happy that we did scope it to the um micro credentials specifically and thanks to Simone for helping us come up with that strategy um because.
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): Um we are ambitious about doing um a more comprehensive mapping of.
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): Sitting there to Elm and other schemas around the world.
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): This is it's it's not even that small but it's um scoped and yet it's really powerful because when we look at the credential landscape and a lot of the chaos that's out there and how people have trouble figuring out which credentials mean what um.
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): It's so much confusion around microcredentials so if we can shed even a little bit of light in terms of how micro credentials from 1 jurisdiction mapped to those in another jurisdiction were super proud to be supporting that effort.
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): Thank you again.
<simone_ravaioli> Draft Micro-credential Schema Mapping Project
<deb_everhart_(credential_engine)> overview of the project https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sLgq5gqc-JpRxSvarVU_DRjNzZrWzsYRtxuduwz7erc/edit
<deb_everhart_(credential_engine)> access to the mapping itself https://desm.credentialengine.org/mappings-list
<deb_everhart_(credential_engine)> the micro-credential mapping is completely open and Credential Engine welcomes collaborators
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): Yes I do and um so I I'll I'll share something with you which is that um as some of us were you know geeking out on this mapping and how it would be done um RC our CEO very smartly said.
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): Why is this important and so to provide a non-technical explanation of why this is important and why it benefits people who have Micro credentials um to be able to get better used and opportunities out of those um and so really we see the mapping um as as interesting as it is it's just the beginning in terms of taking this as a way to understand the similarities the differences the transferability whether or not these micro credentials are truly portable in terms of being useful all of those important discussions um Can emerge from better clarity about what's inside those micro credentials.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Yeah it's President's Day in the holiday in the US so I suspect a lot of people are in Holiday mode and not taking any meetings Etc.
<ildiko_mazar_(elm)> :+1:
<deb_everhart_(credential_engine)> :+1:
Dmitri Zagidulin: Yeah fantastic uh.
Dmitri Zagidulin: I'm totally uh totally fine with us uh ending early.
<jeff_o_-_humanos> Welcome Ildiko! _/\_
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): I I do have 1 other thing to say which is um I didn't note that Phil Barker is on the call and has led a lot of that micro credential mapping work so thank you so much Phil.
Deb_Everhart_(Credential_Engine): Thanks Phil have a great week everyone.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Well it's true.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Thanks all bye.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Yeah yeah just us and the Bots uh yeah shall shall we shall we hop over to zoom.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Just just.
Dmitri Zagidulin: Not too bad.
Dmitri Zagidulin: We don't have.
Dmitri Zagidulin: The transcription afterwards yeah yeah.