Massively Open Online Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed) network dataset

The dataset provides detailed information on the communications taking place between learners in two offerings of the Massively Open Online Course for Educators (MOOC-Eds) titled The Digital Learning Transition in K-12 Schools. The courses were offered to educators from the USA and abroad during the spring and fall of 2013. Though based on the same course, minor controlled variations were made to both MOOCs in terms of the course length, discussion prompts, and group size. The primary use of this dataset is to enable social network analyses (SNAs) of these communications. In particular, it allows modeling network mechanisms to better understand factors that facilitate or impede the exchange of information among educators, and includes relevant characteristics of the participants, such as their professional roles and their experience in education.