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Improving Education and Employment Outcomes for All Learners
Credentials As You Go, 2022/10/20

The Credentials As You Go website was introduced to me on Mastodon with the comment "Walmart behind all of the things, and their funding as a single point of failure." The project is dedicated to developing an alternative education credentials system in the U.S., and while it seems odd for WalMart to be supporting it, it makes sense if they want to offer lower cost alternatives to traditional degrees. "When all the building blocks are working together, individuals are able to move more seamlessly through the marketplace using a variety of credentials to communicate the skills and knowledge acquired in multiple settings (e.g., school, work, service, self-study)." I don't think this is wrong, particularly, but a lot of work has been done buy others. But as we read here, "all parts of the system must be connected and coordinated," which really sounds like the opposite of an open credentials network. Anyhow, take a look - it's interesting, and still pretty new.

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VLS Collection Open House - VLS Collection Demonstration
Rama Kaba-Demanin, eCampus Ontario, YouTube, 2022/10/20

This is a short video shared during the Open Education Conference describing eCampus Ontario's Open Library and in particular the Virtual Learning Strategy (VLS) website. It's one in a list of five videos. The difference between the two is that the VLS library includes resources licensed under the Ontario Commons License (OCL), which restricts use to those within the Ontario educational system and requires a login to access. There are about 1200 OER in the Open Library and five times that in the VLS. While I understand why eCampus Ontario uses it, and I know that many jurisdictions do something similar, I'm not a fan of the OCL, since it runs against the spirit of open education, and means that potentially useful and often publicly-funded content is not available to the general public.

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Engaging with OERs: OERs Life Cycle
Carnegie Mellon University, Open Education Conference, 2022/10/20

This short resource from Carnegie Mellon University was shared during a presentation at the Open Education Conference. The most useful bit is the 'create' page, which links to a number of services that help you create open educational resources (OER). As a whole, this website is suitable for introducing educators to OER for the first time.

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