I'm looking for educational datasets from MOOCs. PSLC DataShop contains some learning interaction data, but not from MOOCs. I'm especially interested in logs tracking students' activities such as browsing the website or submitting answers.
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Were you able to find any sources within the students' activities? I'm looking for similar data to no avail. – kyleED Aug 23 '16 at 19:05
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@kyleED I haven't found any interesting public sources for the students' activities. – Franck Dernoncourt Aug 23 '16 at 19:06
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From my knowledge, Coursera uses Backbone.js for their site, so you can find several JSON endpoints with a lot of data. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with Backbone and the only links I know are from Google
List of all courses - https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/topic/list?full=1
Another list of courses - https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/topic/list2
List of all universities - https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/university/list
Information about a specific course - https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/topic/information?topic-id=compdata
Maybe if you are familiar with those technologies, you can find other links with more details and maybe with non-personal data you may find interesting.
UPDATE Also, this user seems to have a lot of data about MOOC (completion rates etc). Maybe you can contact with him and ask him to share them with you.
http://moocmoocher.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/synthesising-mooc-completion-rates/
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Udacity just (August 12, 2014) released an API that makes all of their course information easily available:
See the overview here: Udacity Course Catalog API
And the documentation here: Udacity Course Catalog API Documentation
Some other APIs that have online course data:
- Coursera has an entire "App Platform" including Catalog API
- Udemy has an API (version 1.1)
- EdX has an RSS feed of their courses (and a full API on their roadmap)
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Nice APIs, thanks! Actually I had mostly in mind student data, but that's very good to know too. – Franck Dernoncourt Aug 13 '14 at 00:06
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Thanks, that's nice but there is barely any information for each student :( (see screenshot that I added in your answer). A few MB compared to ~ 10 GB by course when they receive the database dump from edX. – Franck Dernoncourt Aug 13 '14 at 20:25
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I come after the storm but:
- Yu, J., Luo, G., Xiao, T., Zhong, Q., Wang, Y., Feng, W., ... & Tang, J. (2020, July). MOOCCube: a large-scale data repository for NLP applications in MOOCs. In Proceedings of the 58th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics (pp. 3135-3142). http://moocdata.cn/data/MOOCCube
- Kuzilek J., Hlosta M., Zdrahal Z. Open University Learning Analytics dataset Sci. Data 4:170171 doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.171 (2017). https://analyse.kmi.open.ac.uk/open_dataset (preview on Kaggle)
- Choi, Y., Lee, Y., Shin, D., Cho, J., Park, S., Lee, S., Baek, J., Kim, B., & Jang, Y. (2019). EdNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Dataset in Education. Artificial Intelligence in Education, 12164, 69-73. https://github.com/riiid/ednet
- (only exercises) P. J. Chen, M. E. Hsieh, T. Y. Tsai. Junyi Online Learning Dataset: A large-scale public online learning activity dataset from elementary to senior high school students., 2020. Available from https://www.kaggle.com/junyiacademy/learning-activity-public-dataset-by-junyi-academy.
I am notably interested if content is available; it seems that Junyi contains problem titles in Taiwanese, and MOOCCube contains a lot of content information.
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