Stephen Downes

This article is cleverly written, introducing a pain point early on - "more than a million credentials are now in circulation in the U.S. Demand for them is higher than ever, but consumers can’t always tell the rigorous ones from the noise" - and outlining a credentialing methodology to address this. If credentials are to proceed there's obviously a need for a credential reputation service (assuming such a thing couldn't be gamed) but it raises the deeper question of whether credentials are capable of doing the job we expect of them at all.