Some of the courses offer certificates of completion or other forms of accreditation, some don't.
As well as publication moratoria, technological identifiers (IDs), such as Bioresource Research Impact Factor for biobanks [ 44] and the Open Researcher and Contributor ID [ 45], are forms of accreditation and acknowledgement schemes that provide a means of allocating credit for data generation in novel ways.
They would be assessed partly on online exercises and offline workshops and partly on two long essays, possibly leading to Mozilla Open Badges, a new open-source form of accreditation used to certify what US colleges call "non-credit" learning, which doesn't lead to a conventional qualification.
The nanodegree offered by Udacity is its own original form of accreditation, which is based on a truncated field of study that spans months, rather than years, and allows students to direct the pace of their own learning.
Bob Broadhurst, who is in charge of public order policing at the Metropolitan Police, said in a statement to the NUJ in 2008 that journalists, "on the production of a valid form of accreditation will be able to continue with their work".
Participants proposed that this institutionalisation should include some form of accreditation and a system of recognising good practice.
It is a widely used, generic form of accreditation which concentrates on ensuring organisations have sound, documented processes to improve the way services and products satisfy customers' requirements for quality.
As the primary form of accreditation of dental education, dental education evaluation in China is a new evaluation system, it is basically suitable for current dental education conditions in China, and will be improved in due course as it progresses on.
She said she was "looking at some form of skills accreditation" with Prof Michael Worton, one of the vice-provosts.
The Channel Islands charity Liberate - which aims to promote equality and diversity across the islands - has launched a new scheme for employers in the form of an accreditation to reward organisations who promote diversity in the workplace.
