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<DIV>Hello everyone,</DIV>
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<DIV>I’m new to the mailing list, so I’m not up to speed with the earlier
discussions. But just for absolute clarity.</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Your talking about certificates that a university can hand to its
students. So the idea is that we/someone creates a number of standardized tests.
Each university/school/educator can then give this tests to their students and
if the student passes (based on the opinion of the specific educator, who should
base himself on guidelines given together with the tests) then the students gets
a certificate signed by the university/educator.</EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM>I can imagine that this certificate will read something as</EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM>“The university of blablabla hereby states that student blablabla has
fullfilled the Blender Foundation standardized tests and is therefore awarded
with the certificate ‘Blender beginner modeler’”</EM></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>The purpose would be for an employer to be able to better judge the
qualities of applicants and to have some kind of international benchmark that
educators can use.</EM></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>What would such a test be? For the modeling I can imagine giving a few
reference pictures of e.g. cars/buildings/persons and ask a student to model
this within a certain amount of time (e.g. one hard surface model and one
organic model). Then, also give a list of features/techniques/quota for the
educator to judge. Perhapse even accompanied with a ‘theoretical’ (multiple
choise) test to see if a student knows about different functionalities and tools
in Blender.</EM></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>The idea is to make such tests for different area’s of blender
(modeling, animating, textering & compositing, BGE, ...) and for different
levels (beginner, moderate, advanced).</EM></DIV>
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<DIV>Did I get the idea? </DIV>
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<DIV>If yes, then I have a second question which might help the discussion
forward and also help all other new people: What were the problems in the last
discussion? What stopped this idea from materializing last time?</DIV>
<DIV>Thirdly, is there a lot of demand for this?</DIV>
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<DIV>Fianally, I think that if we want to get something like this done, we need
to make small groups of people setting up specific tests (so yes, perhapse a
page on the wiki or forum is a good idea).</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Nick</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>