QualityLink strives to provide learners and other education with comprehensive and relevant quality data on courses and micro-credentials. QualityLink envisions a seamless and interoperable environment where quality information on study programs and micro-credentials is easily accessible across diverse sources. To this aim we propose meaningful quality domains and indicators for micro-credentials and digital credentials. The idea is that the quality domains and indicators combine information from various data sources into one comprehensive course catalogue. Openly shareable course data is key to the interoperability of the European education ecosystem.

The QualityLink project conducted two online surveys and five focus group discussions to test the relevance and validity of the quality indicators. The list of indicators was revised based on the empirical findings. Eleven indicators were selected to be implemented for the development and piloting of the QualityLink platform. They are highlighted in bold in the following list. You can read the full report on the Indicator ranking with students and stakeholders here.