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A list of online courses on edx.org learning platform

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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