EASIG Charter Template
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Note: This template is a guideline for what has typically been done in Hyperledger communities and seen as a best practice, however communities may collectively decide to change and adjust the template according to what makes sense for their community (except where otherwise noted -- for instance, all groups must adhere to our Code of Conduct).
1. Introduction
Education today is an experience that spans multiple, traditional education segments and that is lifelong and lifewide. Digital tools have enabled students to curate personalized learning paths based on their individual interests and needs, earning credentials, badges, and certifications from an increasingly diverse set of learning providers. These tools also have the potential to empower the most traditionally disadvantaged of students by giving them ownership of these achievements and the ability to display these as they pursue their goals in a changing workforce.
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Goals of the Hyperledger Education Architecture Special Interest Group are to:
- Create open-source, shareable assets to reduce barriers to entry and adoption for education stakeholders
- Explore and showcase key educational use cases of blockchain
- Foster collaborations between academic institutions, policymakers, vendors, and other education stakeholders
- Create open-source, shareable assets to reduce barriers to entry and adoption for education stakeholders
- Develop and promote the adoption alignment of important interoperability standards in open APIs and protocols for education use cases, including from open standards bodies such as: IMS Global Learning Consortium, IEEE, W3C, PESC, etc.
- Curate or develop professional development or technical assistance resources to support educational practitioners on approaches to applying blockchain technology across various educational use cases
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Work products of the EASIG include, but are not limited to:
- Open-source software requirements
- Use cases
- Case studies and success stories
- Best practices
- Interoperability and compliance Assets assets
- Face-to-face events and meet-ups
- Podcasts or other social media engagement Open-source software requirements engagement
- Creation of a Hyperledger Labs project if the group produces any code
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A new election process can be started by having a discussion on the group’s list or by communication by the Hyperledger POC. In that discussion, the Chair may announce they are stepping down.
9. SIG Chair
Currently, Feng Hou, Chief Digital Transformation Evangelist from Maryville University in St. Louis serves as the Interim Chair.
9.1 Responsibilities
An EASIG Chair is responsible for the following items:
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