Comments on: The future of academic certification: universities, MOOCs, aggregators, and peer reputation

By: Trần Vĩnh

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By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:28:00 +0000

In reply to Yannig Roth. Interesting Yannig, I hadn't seen those specific sites. Yes, surfacing talent is both valuable and monetizable, helping many of these models!

By: Yannig Roth

Yannig Roth — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:31:00 +0000

Hello Ross, thanks for this post! I think students will also increasingly play games and participate in challenges to beef up their curriculums in the future. Crowdsourcing websites like Studyka (France) and Mindsumo (USA) are specialized in brand challenges for students, and the most value doesn’t come from the ideas, but in the talent identification for companies!

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:16:00 +0000

In reply to Marc Singer. Thanks Marc, that's interesting. As you are experiencing the institutional structures can shift slowly. We don't know how fast they will change, but certainly the credence of alternatives to 'accredited' degrees may rise rapidly.

By: Marc Singer

Marc Singer — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Thomas Edison State College in the US, where I work, does provide the sort of credentialing services you mention, though we also offer courses separately. We do a fair amount of assessment of prior learning, and we also review certifications and professional licenses for college-level learning, and we see the assessment of open courseware and MOOCs as being of the same cloth. We are starting to work with some of these providers, like the Saylor Foundation and OERu, to develop pathways to college credit and recognition, if students need it. Our accreditors require us to tread cautiously, though, because they have not clarified their take on this approach.

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:17:00 +0000

In reply to Russell Thomas.

That is an intriguing idea Russell.

My first thought is that there would need to be upside as well as downside as otherwise there would be little incentive to support others’ reputation.

I’ll muse more on this.

By: Russell Thomas

Russell Thomas — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:13:00 +0000

Though I won’t make this a prediction, I’m intrigued by peer reputation systems that include a financial component — “skin in the game”. This is a “surety bond” of sorts — where people and firms who REALLY stand behind a person’s reputation would put up a small amount of money to pay for a bond, payable if that person does not perform to some standard (in employment, in a contract, in further schooling). They “payment” wouldn’t need to be always in money. It could be via “in-kind services”. For example, if the person in question is a writer, then the people backing her with a “reputation bond” might be liable to pay for the services of another writer to come do “clean up”.

In a way, this is like the old “Good Housekeeping Seal”, where the magazine would refund the purchase price to any consumer of the product endorsed by Good Housekeeping.

This idea has roots in how risk pooling is handled in pre-industrial societies where there is no commercial insurance.

By: Russell Thomas

Russell Thomas — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:47:00 +0000

In reply to mathewlowry.

Great question, Mathew. All systems of evaluation are subject to gaming or manipulation of some kind. Centralized/hierarchical systems are vulnerable to favoritism, corruption, and bureaucratic ineptitude. Distributed systems are susceptible to local cheating and fakery, plus mass action attacks like “astroturf” political campaigns.

In all cases, the key question is what prevention, detection, and repair capabilities does the system have, and what incentives do the players have. There has been a lot of research into resilient distributed reputation and trust systems, including models based on biology or ecology. Most of these research ideas remain to be explored or tested in the real world, especially this one. I see this as a major innovation opportunity.

By: mathewlowry

mathewlowry — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:30:00 +0000

How can providers of ‘distributed peer reputation measures’ avoid gaming strategies seen in everything from individual communities to services like LinkedIn and Klout?