[Bf-education] Certification & Diplomas

[Rui Campos]

Hi all,

My idea:
- A Center is given option to certify itself as an official entity if it
has 2 or more certified trainers (or one, don't know).
- In order for the Center to get certified it needs to head over to the
Blender website and enter their two trainers ids and submit a form.
- This form will be sent to the Blender Foundation and will automatically
send an e-mail back to the Center with some rules that must be met in
order to be able to issue certificates.
- The Center will then formulate their courses and material and would send
some demo version of it for validation to the Blender Foundation.
- Upon approval the Blender Foundation would issue a number to the Center
and put it on their database.
- The Blender Foundation would reserve the right to inspect any Center at
any given time and cease their approval at any time.

The thing we must ensure is that it isn't too hard to setup, since the
Foundation already has a lot of work.



----- Original Message -----
> Hello everybody,
>
> Yes Rui, diplomas are a great idea and they will be of use in order not to
> confuse everybody with
> so many diferent types of certification.
> Could be something like this:
>
>
> Certification 		Module	      Description		Gets
>    Program
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Standard 			-		UI & fundamentals of 	Diploma
> 						animation with blender
>
> Advanced 			1		Modeling			Diploma*
> Advanced			2		Materials & textures	Diploma*
> Advanced			3		Ilumination			Diploma*
> Advanced			4		Animation			Diploma*
> Advanced			5		Rendering & Codecs	Diploma*
>
> Specialist			-		Real time 3D		Diploma**
> Specialist			-		Game Engine & Python	Diploma**
> Specialist			-		Web based applications	Diploma**
>
> Training standard		-		starndard program		Certificate
> Training advanced		-		advanced program		Certificate
> Training specialist	-		specialist program	Certificate
>
> _____________________________________________________________________________________________
> *Completing the 5 modules the person gets certificated as a "model &
> animation professional"
> **Completing all the diplomas gets certificated as a "Blender
> professional"
>
>
> Now a question:
>
> -Who will emit diplomas and certificates?
>
>  One answer could be each and every institute individually, but then..
> 	-How can the foundation be sure that what they teach, it follows the
> program?
>
>  Another answer could be the foundation and in that case .....it would
> need a web based platform
>  in order to evaluate and emmit the diplomas or certificates.
>
>
>
>
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