Dataset: Edx Courses

About this Dataset

Edx Courses

Context

edX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider founded by Harvard and MIT. It hosts a wide range of online university-level courses in different disciplines.

Content

This dataset contains information about 976 courses that are currently available on the edx.org platform.

variable	class	description
title	character	Title of the course
summary	character	A summary of the course
n_enrolled	integer	Number of student that have enrolled in the courses
course_type	character	Type of course
institution	character	The institution that created and provided the course
instructors	character	Name(s) of course instructors separated by '-'
Level	character	Difficulty level
subject	character	Subject of the course
language	character	Language
subtitles	character	Available Subtitle(s)
course_effort	character	An estimate of time and effort needed to complete the course
course_length	character	length of the course in weeks
price	character
course_description	character	A description of the course
course_syllabus	character	course syllabus
course_url	character	course URL on edx.org

Acknowledgements

The dataset was scraped using R and the rvest library by Hadely Wickhom.

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Tables

Edx Courses

@kaggle.imuhammad_edx_courses.edx_courses

1.05 MB
975 rows
16 columns


CREATE TABLE edx_courses (
  "title" VARCHAR,
  "summary" VARCHAR,
  "n_enrolled" DOUBLE,
  "course_type" VARCHAR,
  "institution" VARCHAR,
  "instructors" VARCHAR,
  "level" VARCHAR,
  "subject" VARCHAR,
  "language" VARCHAR,
  "subtitles" VARCHAR,
  "course_effort" VARCHAR,
  "course_length" VARCHAR,
  "price" VARCHAR,
  "course_description" VARCHAR,
  "course_syllabus" VARCHAR,
  "course_url" VARCHAR
);