Our Data

CredScape is a structured corpus of micro-credentials, certificates, and non-credit continuing education programs. It brings together offering information that is often dispersed across institutional continuing education websites and learning-platform catalogues, then makes that information searchable, comparable, and ready for market analysis.

What the record holds

Two sources

Institutional crawls and platform catalogues, in one index. Each row keeps the source it came from.

One vocabulary

Course, certificate, micro-credential, diploma, badge and the rest, mapped to CTDL rather than to whatever each site happened to call it.

Semantic retrieval

Every indexed offering carries a dense vector embedding, so search runs on concept alongside full text.

Published price

Amount, currency, cost type and payment pattern, recorded as the source published them. Where a source gives only a pricing model, the record says so instead of inventing a figure.

Duration

ISO durations in exact, minimum and maximum forms, contact hours, and a self-paced flag.

Delivery

Delivery format and schedule type are normalized, so online, hybrid and in person mean the same thing from one institution to the next.

Skills

Offerings link to ESCO skills and competency facets. Coverage is partial by source design, and the record shows where it is absent.

Collection stamps

Every row carries the date it was collected. The corpus is crawled in batches, not streamed live.

Scoped statistics

Platform catalogues are searchable, and excluded from market composition. Subscription pricing would distort a price median, so it stays out of one.

Credential markets are difficult to assess from public webpages alone. Program names vary. Delivery details may appear in a description, while price, duration, audience, credit status, and credential form may appear elsewhere, or use inconsistent language. Similar programs can be presented very differently across institutions. A useful market view requires more than collecting links. It requires a consistent structure that preserves the information decision-makers need to evaluate.

That structure supports the questions facing provosts, institutional research leaders, and continuing and professional education deans. Search for programs by concept rather than relying only on exact wording. Narrow results by location, source platform, credential form, or delivery mode. Review a program detail page, examine institutional profiles, and compare offerings side by side.

Market analysis depends on clear boundaries. CredScape separates sources used for searchable discovery from sources used for market-composition dashboards. This allows price ranges, medians, credential forms, categories, skill facets, and provincial composition to be interpreted on a consistent basis.

CredScape is built by CredScape Market Intelligence Inc., a federally incorporated Canadian company based in Kelowna, British Columbia. Its purpose is to give higher education leaders a clearer basis for examining credential supply, comparing offerings, and connecting local program markets with labour-market intelligence.

Our Data

Intelligence in context

Search intelligence

Market intelligence

Labour market intelligence

One connected corpus