Certificating Training/References

Certificating training

History

Wikimedia Italia

Method

References

Discussions about certifications and badges

• https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/Badges,_WikiMedia_and_MediaWiki

Stakeholders

• Wikimedia chapters, affiliates, groups and like-mined organizations.
• Wikimedia Education programme http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal
• MindBand http://www.mindband.ch
• MOOC Massive Open Online Courses http://www.mooc.net
• P2PU Peer to Peer University - https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/

Examples of certifications

Certification for PM or the certification for IT skills, if this certification would have in future a professional value. There are several levels and some of them are entry point for some other levels. Increasing the level the certification becomes hardest and more complicated.

• ISACA which is a no profit organization and their aim is to certificy IT skills http://www.isaca.org. People demonstrate an experience of several years and after they can have an interview or a test. In addition people has to do fulfill annual requirements to maintain it.
• Open Badges of the Mozilla Foundation http://openbadges.org

Example of training structures

• Wikiskills http://wikiskills.net/the-project-deliverables/

Related projects

• Wikipedia Trainer Certification
• Certified Wikipedia Ambassador
• Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy