Phil Hill is critical of the new data being released by Harvard and MIT from their edX-based MOOCs. "At first I was eager to explore the data," he writes, "but I am not sure how much useful insight is possible due to how the data was collected... this data only tells us very shallow usage patterns aggregated over the entire course – did they look at courseware, how many video views, how many forum posts, final grade, etc. [and] ignores student goals or any information giving a clue on whether students desired to complete the course, get a good grade, get a certificate, or just sample some material."
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