FUNCERT - Registration dynamics and course certification rates on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform

The FUNCERT data set describes 1 million course registration events collected over a 2-year period from the MOOC platform FUN (France Université Numérique, fun-mooc.fr). Each registration event is associated with a timestamp and an indication of whether a completion certificate was ultimately awarded. It was used in the referenced manuscript to model the impact of multiple course registrations on certificate rates.

The data set is provided as a single file (FUNCERT.csv) with the following fields.

Time (min) The time of the registration event reported in minutes elapsed since the beginning of data collection. The time stamp is reported as a relative time only, not an exact calendar date, to enhance anonymization.

User ID A unique ID number for each user of the platform during this period. The number has been generated specifically for this data set and does not correspond to user ID numbers used within the FUN platform.

Course ID Each of the 140 offered courses is assigned a unique and anonymous ID code. In some cases courses were offered multiple times within the data collection period. The same Course ID is used across multiple instances of the same course.

Certificate A boolean variable set to 1 if the registration event is associated with a course completion certificate. Of 140 offered courses, 91 awarded certificates during the study period.

Age User age in years at the time of registration. Field may be left blank if data was not provided.

Gender User gender as selected from the options m and f. Field may be left blank if data was not provided.