Time to Build Trust With an Open Achievements API?
Tony Hirst,
OUseful Info,
Sept 22, 2008
Tony Hirst is on to a good idea with this opening discussion about an 'open achievements API' - that is, a way top syndicate qualifications information. The trick to this, of course, is that you can't depend on the person being described for the information. Qualifications need to be displayed by the institution granting them - but only (?) with the permission of the person being granted the qualification. This is one of those innovations that would have wide-ranging consequences, as institutions would (very suddenly) come to be evaluated according to the students they qualify. It's a space a tough independent testing agency could make a name for itself.
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