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We introduce the anonymised Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD). It contains data about courses, students and their interactions with Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for seven selected courses (called modules). Presentations of courses start in February and October – they are marked by “B” and “J” respectively. The dataset consists of tables connected using unique identifiers. All tables are stored in the csv format.
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OULAD testimonials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Learning Analytics & Open Data Hackathon 3.0<\/a> at the University of British Columbia, Canada<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The two-day event was held at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Over 100 participants dove into our dataset and experimented with it. Interesting projects in the area of social comparison and visualisation have been developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAK18 Hackathon<\/a> at Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference (LAK18) in Sydney, Australia<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The principal aim of Hack@LAK18 was to enable multi-disciplinary thinking over key open challenges in Learning Analytics based on a problem-oriented, pragmatic approach. OULAD was one of the recommended datasets by the organisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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