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One credential, for a body of work.

Finishing a cohort earns one credential and nothing along the way, because the research on rewards keeps finding that badges for taking part lower people’s own reasons for doing the work, and the work is the point.

The evidence is the repository.

The credential points to the app its holder built and to the repository that holds the app and the record of how it was made, both in the holder’s own accounts, so the credential says what happened and the work shows it. A web app pushed live, at an address anyone can open, is enough for the first level, and each further platform the app is published on, where other people can get it for themselves, adds a level.

A leader of the cohort opens the repository and every link before recording the credential, and people who hold it can return to finished cohorts and help newcomers as returning learners.

Ten levels, one for each platform.

The platforms are the web, iPhone and iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Android, Google TV and Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, and Windows. Each level is also published as data, the way the standard describes it.

  1. 1Human-shaped software, live on the webAs data
  2. 2Human-shaped software, live on two platformsAs data
  3. 3Human-shaped software, live on three platformsAs data
  4. 4Human-shaped software, live on four platformsAs data
  5. 5Human-shaped software, live on five platformsAs data
  6. 6Human-shaped software, live on six platformsAs data
  7. 7Human-shaped software, live on seven platformsAs data
  8. 8Human-shaped software, live on eight platformsAs data
  9. 9Human-shaped software, live on nine platformsAs data
  10. 10Human-shaped software, live on ten platformsAs data

humanshaped.org signs every one.

Each credential is an Open Badges 3.0 credential, which is a W3C Verifiable Credential, signed by humanshaped.org with the eddsa-rdfc-2022 method. The issuer is did:web:humanshaped.org, so its public keys live on this site at /.well-known/did.json, while the private key that signs stays off the web entirely, and issuing costs nothing to run.

Looking for the signing key…

Anyone can check one.

Every credential has its own page, at the link its holder chooses to share, and that page checks the signature in your browser before it shows you anything as true. The holder can download the file for a credential wallet, and anyone can check it again with an independent verifier such as VerifierPlus, which will also note that humanshaped.org is not yet in a registry of known issuers.

The public sees one credential at a time, by its link, and never a list of the people who hold one.