Dive Brief:

• Researchers have released registration and demographic data for MOOCs from MITx and HarvardX courses.
• Also released is a set of interactive visualization tools called Insights, offered as open-source tools for both the Harvard and MIT courses.
• The data encompasses about 1 million registrants, and the tools allow country-by-country viewing of certificate attainment, gender and age composition, and education levels.

Dive Insight:

The release of the data comes after the recent release of working papers in which researchers tackled course completion statistics, among other things. The dataset being released is near real-time and is, of course, anonymous.