ECOTEC_Online Student Risk Dataset

Open institutional dataset containing 12,632 anonymized student-level records and 18 public variables from online higher education programs at Universidad ECOTEC (Ecuador). TARGET_RISK is a contemporaneous administrative proxy derived during study-level data curation from restricted STUDENT_TYPE and GRADUATION_DATE information and should not be interpreted as a prospectively observed dropout or retention outcome. The repository supports reproducible research in learning analytics, educational data mining, institutional analytics, class-imbalanced classification, explainable artificial intelligence, responsible AI, fairness-aware analysis, and educational decision-support research. The release includes variable-level metadata, validation and descriptive-analysis scripts, Logistic Regression and Random Forest benchmark scripts and outputs, software-environment specifications, and file-level SHA-256 checksums.