How to Prove and Assess Quality Learning workshop

Creating How to Prove and Assess Quality Learning (with *DAS) workshop

The Reference-Rich Decentralized Accreditation System (*DAS) is a new certification concept for hacker knowledge and community-sourced knowledge in general. This workshop will teach how to make *DAS-formatted certificates.

Then, we'll show you what your certificates can look like connected up with everyone else's in the *DAS system, including an interactive demo of trust inference over the certificate network you helped make.

Abstract

So you've learned some amazing things from your community, not from school. How can you prove it? With an open-source accreditation system, of course! But it's a challenge to write a certificate for your own learning that includes every piece: the right prerequisites, the right kind of proof that it's yours, the right material to make an excellent case for your knowledge--and how to credit your community, too. Join us to learn how to write a short, trustworthy certificate to prove your knowledge (like the key points of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954) or your skill (like soldering headers) that you'd like to prove to yourself or others, especially something you've learned at HOPE 2020! Use a reference-rich decentralized accreditation system (*DAS), which we will provide, to visualize your certificate as part of a live network of everyone else's certificates from the workshop.

Our developing website can provide more information about the *DAS project!

Full Description

Welcome! Today, we're making *DAS certificates.

*DAS certificates have a very particular structure, but they're just ordinary documents (like word docs, google docs, dropbox paper, or markdown) with particular formatting.

*DAS cert on Dropbox Paper	*DAS cert made in Microsoft Word	*DAS cert written in markdown

We'll use some templates to help get the format correct quickly and easily.

• One-click Dropbox Paper *DAS certificate (recommended, for users with Dropbox accounts)

• Dropbox Paper template

• Google doc template

• Download the Word doc (.docx) template

• Download the Markdown (.md) template

Registration

You need to REGISTER in advance to take this workshop::
registration link info TBD

Materials

To do the hands-on portion of this workshop you will need to order and receive workshop MATERIALS:
cool materials
Cost: $TBD
IMPORTANT: To receive the materials in time for the workshop, you must use EXPRESS Shipping.

Required Software

Please download the free and open source Arduino software before the workshop -- Windows, Linux, or MacOS are all fine!:
Arduino software

Links

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