Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
When I proposed my self-identification scheme a little while ago, a common question was, how do we know whether declarations of external credentials, such as diplomas or degrees, are genuine. This item points to the easy and inevitable answer I provided: educational institutions post lists of their graduates and degrees online. Like this item describes. But how do we know the university record points to a given self-identified person? The university record points to the personal record. Instead of just listing names - which are silly unverifiable character strings - it points to URLs. This is what will happen; it's only a matter of time, because there's no other sensible way to do it.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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