#  MIT and Harvard Release De-identified Learning Data from Open Online Courses 

 





June 02, 2014

 

 

 A research team from Harvard University and MIT has released its third and final promised deliverable — the de-identified learning data — relating to an initial study of online learning based on each institution’s first-year courses on the edX platform.

 Specifically, the dataset contains the original learning data from the 16 HarvardX and *MITx* courses offered in 2012-13 that formed the basis of the first [HarvardX](http://harvardx.harvard.edu/harvardx-working-papers) and *[MITx](http://odl.mit.edu/mitx-working-papers/)* working papers (released in January) and underpin a suite of powerful open-source interactive visualization tools (released in February).

 The dataset was subjected to a careful process of de-identification: removing personally identifiable information, using best practices including aggregation, anonymization via random identifiers, and blurring to reduce individuality of sensitive data fields, among other techniques.



 

 

 



 

 

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