By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Social media history could provide alternative to credit checks
Jason Osler, CBC, 2015/10/05

I still get sceptical looks when I talk about using social media and network connections to evaluate a student (instead of the usual tests and assignments). My reasoning is that we can use the willingness of other people in the field to engage with a person (say) to evaluate his or her academic credibility. More...