Challenges and proposals for introducing digital certificates in higher education infrastructures
- Questions about the recognition of MOOCs within and outside higher education were already being raised in the early 2010s. Today, recognition decisions are still made more or less on a case-by-case basis. However, digital certification approaches are now emerging that could automate recognition processes. The technical development of the required machinereadable documents and infrastructures is already well advanced in some cases. The DigiCerts consortium has developed a solution based on a collective blockchain. 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 the Institute for Interactive Systems at Technische Hochschule Lübeck, 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.
Author details: | Anja LorenzORCiD, Stefanie Bock, Juleka Schulte-Ostermann |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-624701 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-62470 |
Title of parent work (English): | EMOOCs 2023 : Post-Covid Prospects for Massive Open Online Courses - Boost or Backlash? |
Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
Editor(s): | Christoph Meinel, Stefanie Schweiger, Thomas Staubitz, Robert Conrad, Carlos Alario Hoyos, Martin Ebner, Susanna Sancassani, Agnieszka Żur, Christian Friedl, Sherif Halawa, Dilrukshi Gamage, Jeffrey Scott, May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Yves Deville, Michael Gaebel, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Karen von Schmieden |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2023/11/14 |
Publication year: | 2023 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Publishing institution: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Release date: | 2024/02/02 |
Tag: | Digitale Bildung; Kursdesign; MOOC; Micro Degree; Online-Lehre; Onlinekurs Onlinekurs-Produktion; digital education; e-learning; micro degree; micro-credential; online course creation; online course design; online teaching |
Number of pages: | 8 |
First page: | 263 |
Last Page: | 270 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | ST 670 |
Organizational units: | Digital Engineering Fakultät / Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering GmbH |
DDC classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Open Access / Gold Open-Access | |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Sammelwerke (nicht fortlaufend) / EMOOCs 2023 / Beiträge |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |