The phrase "online credentials" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the login information or digital proof of identity used to access websites or online accounts. Example: "Please provide your online credentials to log into your account."
Now that Schibsted has established its online credentials, "The big question is, 'Is this a repeatable success, or is it a very good 10-year run?' " said Professor Anand at Harvard Business School.
Working with Mozilla, the MacArthur Foundation and a consortium interested in virtual learning, former President Bill Clinton announced a project on Thursday to expand the use of Open Badges — online credentials that employers or universities can use in hiring, admissions, promotions or awarding credit.
What's even more interesting is that this isn't the only way online learning is being legitimised by mainstream institutions (especially in the US), in May of last year New York University began allowing students from the tuition-free, online-only University of the People to use their online credentials to apply to study at its Abu Dhabi campus.
On 4 October, Adobe reported that its systems had been penetrated by attackers who had stolen the online credentials for millions of its users.
Elbakyan declined to say exactly how she obtains the papers, but she did confirm that it involves online credentials: the user IDs and passwords of people or institutions with legitimate access to journal content.
Accredible, which provides online credentials as a service, is announcing a partnership today to provide digital certificates for Udacity's burgeoning nanodegree program.
The logic that drives open online credentialing experiments is, thus far, only experimental.
With Accredible, students can also supplement the certificate with portfolios pieces, personal notes, etc. Accredible is not new to the online credentialing space.
And as education policy analyst Rachel Fishman argues, "almost all students today are online students in some way - whether it be accessing institutional services online, taking a hybrid or fully online course, or enrolling in an online credential program".
Informal learning opportunities are exploding and right behind them are low cost online credentialing options that will expand access to quality secondary learning to the 500 million young people that lack access today.
That's why we here at the Business Roundtable have joined forces with the Lumina Foundation to launch Credential Engine, an online certification registry empowering workers and employers to search and compare programs.
