There has been an increasing movement to centralize skills recognition over the last few months. Microsoft's LinkedIn has long focused on quantifying skills. Last summer saw a proposal for an IMS badge merger with the wider W3C Verifiable Credentials standard in what critics say is a commercial hijacking of the standard. Most recently, educational publishing company Pearson purchased Credly, a badge management company. Here, Doug Belshaw pushes back with advocacy for an Open Skills Management Tool (OSMT), providing "an example given by (Badgr's) Nate Otto during a meeting of the Open Recognition workgroup as part of the Open Skills Network yesterday." Argues Belshaw, "The next step is to get many, many OSMTs in existence so that we can decentralise the means of skill description!"
Update: Doug Belshaw writes, "I think that the IMS 'hijacking' which you mention should actually be a reference to people trying to subsume the Open Badges standard under the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR). The proposal to align Open Badges with Verifiable Credentials has wide support in the community. And in a delicious reversal, the CLR is now somewhat subsumed within the proposed Open Badges 3.0 spec."
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