Streamlining Data in Education: Open Badges 3.0 & Verifiable Credentials

As the number of students and opportunities for continuing education rises, the need for a verifiable, portable way to share information about skills and achievements is greater than ever. Sharing proof of education achievements has become increasingly popular on LinkedIn and common practice for evaluating job applications. Having a fast, simple way to confirm education data streamlines the process and provides a better experience for everyone involved.

Open Badges 3.0 and verifiable credentials offer an efficient way for educational institutions to issue traditional education documents, such as diplomas and transcripts, directly into a student’s personal digital wallet on their mobile device making them portable and easily verifiable.

Assistant Executive Director of United School Administrators (USA) Kansas Jerry Henn joins us to share how USA Kansas are currently working on implementing this technology and how they see it benefitting their members. With 35 years of experience in the education field Jerry can share with us the problems schools face and specifically why he is so excited about these new systems.

We’ll also speak with James Schulte, who attended 1EdTech Consortium’s Digital Credential Summit earlier this month in New Orleans. We’ll dig into the Open Badges 3.0 standard, the latest in adoption, and why so many colleges and Universities are turning to verifiable data for issuing learning achievements.

Speakers:
Jerry Henn, Assistant Executive Director, USA Kansas
Jerry has a Bachelor’s and Master’s from Emporia State University. He secured a district licensure program through Pittsburg State University. Jerry has spent 35 years in Education in the public schools in Kansas. He spent 9 years as a teacher in high school mathematics. He then spent 26 years as an administrator. Twenty years as a principal and the last six as a superintendent. Once retired, he secured a position with United School Administrators of Kansas (USA-K). For the last 6 years, he has worked to support administrators in Kansas with their leadership and advocacy needs.
Jerry and his wife Denise are lifetime Kansans. They have three children who have three supportive spouses. They also have two grandchildren.

James Schulte, VP Business Development, Indicio
As Vice President for Business Development at Indicio, James brings a deep understanding of global sales and customer engagement management experience to the table, and is responsible for the growth, use, and scaling of products and solutions for Indicio’s commercial and public sector business. With an impressive knowledge of current applications and deployments of verifiable credentials around the globe, James has developed relationships with governments, companies and teams of all sizes, supporting them as they build solutions and deploy new innovative services in multiple industries and markets. James brings experience working in international market development, including helping launch new customer engagements in Eastern Europe, Canada, Africa, Latin America, and the European Union. His passions include responsive governance, citizen and customer engagement, and foreign policy analysis.

Trevor Butterworth, VP Governance, Indicio
Trevor Butterworth has spent two decades looking at how data is used and communicated in society, first as a journalist, then as founding director at a think tank, and now as co-founder and VP for Communications and Governance of Indicio. He is chair of the Steering Committee for the Cardea Project at Linux Foundation Public Health, an open source project for sharing verifiable digital health credentials in a privacy preserving way. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Covid Credentials Initiative, also at Linux Foundation Public Health, and he is on the Stewards Governance Committee of the Velocity Network. Prior to Indicio, Trevor was a consultant to the Sovrin Foundation, and Director of Research at Cynja.tech.

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