[KI-LC] Tangent Topic - Coursera ..the Education credits initiative I was trying to think of (Re: Intern for Kantara)

[Eve Maler]

Coursera as an RP (or even an IdP spanning multiple university affiliations?) is interesting. I was talking with Susan Morrow recently about Coursera; she had been taking some courses there for fun, and decided to sign up for the certification flow to see what the identity proofing/authentication situation was like. It was interesting: They do keystroke dynamics to strongly authenticate the person taking the course, and have you hold up a picture ID next to your head on a webcam. I'm guessing they're not going through with expensive proofing at that juncture, just recording them for later. (With my day-job hat on, I'm intending to reach out to them for an interview.)

	Eve

On 31 Jul 2013, at 8:29 AM, Joni Brennan <joni at ieee-isto.org> wrote:

> This thread just reminded me of another education bit - tangentially related... 
> 
> I recently discovered Coursera - an on-line aggregator of classes offered by accredited institutions.  Anyone can sign up for courses and take them for free.  If you want a certificate of completion etc then there is a reasonable fee.  
> 
> It feels like there is a possible interesting fit for verified credential acceptance in the coursera community where Coursera is FO (policy wise at least) and each Univ as RP.  I'm not sure how/if InCommon plays in this use case and it would be interesting to know at the least. 
> 
> PS - I will be taking - "Building Information Risk Tool Kits" from our friends at Univ Wa. this fall. 
> 
> Best,
> Joni
> 
> Joni Brennan
> Kantara Initiative | Executive Director
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> email: joni @ kantarainitiative.org
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> Building Trusted Identity Ecosystems - It takes a village! 
> Slides: http://bit.ly/ki-june-2013
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> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Salvatore D'Agostino <sal at idmachines.com> wrote:
> Thanks tortoise.
> 
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> From: lc-bounces at kantarainitiative.org [mailto:lc-bounces at kantarainitiative.org] On Behalf Of Colin Wallis
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:52 AM
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> Scroll down on this page..
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> Cheers
> Colin
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