An exploratory analysis on MOOCs retention and certification in two courses of different knowledge areas

Abstract

The massive quantity of learners generating information related to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) make researchers analyze large datasets about the learners' profile, interaction, satisfaction, etc. and these datasets can come from multiple data sources related to the same or different courses. This paper details the conducted exploratory analysis performed with data from two different MOOCs of different knowledge areas to check the factors that influence the learners' retention and certification. The preliminary results we obtained allow us to provide some conclusions with the aim to keep researching in order to generalize our achievements.