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 | Lorenz, Anja; Bock, Stefanie; Schulte-Ostermann, Juleka: Challenges and proposals for introducing digital certificates in higher education infrastructures. In: Meinel, Christoph; Schweiger, Stefanie; Staubitz, Thomas; Conrad, Robert; Hoyos, Carlos Alario; Ebner, Martin; Sancassani, Susanna; Żur, Agnieszka; Friedl, Chrisitan; Halawa, Sherif; Gamage, Dilrukshi; Cross, Jeffrey; Carlon, May; Deville, Yves; Gaebel, Michael; Kloos, Carlos Delgado; von Schmieden, Karen (Hrsg.): EMOOCs 2023: Post-Covid Prospects for Massive Open Online Courses – Boost or Backlash?, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam, 2023. @inproceedings{Lorenz2023c,
title = {Challenges and proposals for introducing digital certificates in higher education infrastructures},
author = {Anja Lorenz and Stefanie Bock and Juleka Schulte-Ostermann},
editor = {Christoph Meinel and Stefanie Schweiger and Thomas Staubitz and Robert Conrad and Carlos Alario Hoyos and Martin Ebner and Susanna Sancassani and Agnieszka Żur and Chrisitan Friedl and Sherif Halawa and Dilrukshi Gamage and Jeffrey Cross and May Carlon and Yves Deville and Michael Gaebel and Carlos Delgado Kloos and Karen von Schmieden},
url = {https://emoocs.hpi.de/
https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-57645
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7942944
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7973465
https://bit.ly/emoocs-certificates
},
doi = {10.25932/publishup-57645},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-11-14},
urldate = {2023-06-14},
booktitle = {EMOOCs 2023: Post-Covid Prospects for Massive Open Online Courses – Boost or Backlash?},
publisher = {Universitätsverlag Potsdam},
address = {Potsdam},
organization = {Hasso-Plattner-Institut},
abstract = {Questions about the recognition of MOOCs within and outside higher education were already being raised in the mid 2010s. Today, these decisions are still made more or less on a case-by-case basis. However, digital certification approaches are now emerging that could automate these processes. The technical development of the required machine-readable documents and infrastructures is already well advanced in some cases. A solution based on a collective blockchain has already been developed by DigiCerts. There are ongoing and open discussions regarding the particular technology, but the institutional implementation of digital certificates raises further questions. A number of workshops have been held at Institute of Interactive Systems at Lübeck University of Technology, which have identified the need for new responsibilities for issuing certificates. It has also become clear that all members of higher education institutions need to develop skills in the use of digital certificates.},
keywords = {blockchain certificates, digital certificates, digital records, higher education, massive open online course (MOOC), moodle},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Questions about the recognition of MOOCs within and outside higher education were already being raised in the mid 2010s. Today, these decisions are still made more or less on a case-by-case basis. However, digital certification approaches are now emerging that could automate these processes. The technical development of the required machine-readable documents and infrastructures is already well advanced in some cases. A solution based on a collective blockchain has already been developed by DigiCerts. There are ongoing and open discussions regarding the particular technology, but the institutional implementation of digital certificates raises further questions. A number of workshops have been held at Institute of Interactive Systems at Lübeck University of Technology, which have identified the need for new responsibilities for issuing certificates. It has also become clear that all members of higher education institutions need to develop skills in the use of digital certificates. |
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