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vincentcouey/online-course-roi-2026

EduBracket 2026 Online Course ROI Audit First-party audit of 50 online courses across 10 platforms. Computes hours-per-dollar curriculum density, certificate price premium, and per-platform pricing aggregates. License: CC-BY 4.0 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20632758 Source study: https://edubracket.com/research/online-course-roi-2026/ Author: Vincent Wesley Couey (ORCID 0009-0005-6869-308X) · published via EduBracket (edubracket.com), part of the Lattice research network.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/vincentcouey/online-course-roi-2026.

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EduBracket 2026 Online Course ROI Audit

First-party audit of 50 online courses across 10 platforms. Computes hours-per-dollar curriculum density, certificate price premium, and per-platform pricing aggregates.

—License: CC-BY 4.0
—DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20632758
—Source study: https://edubracket.com/research/online-course-roi-2026/
—Author: Vincent Wesley Couey (ORCID 0009-0005-6869-308X) · published via EduBracket (edubracket.com), part of the Lattice research network.

What's in it

Files: data.json. Main table hoursPerDollarRanking (17 rows): rank, name, platform, category, price, hours, hoursPerDollar, rating, certificate.

Method

Aggregates computed from edubracket.com/courses/course-database.json. Hours estimated from posted duration: months x 40, weeks x 8, hours as posted. Hours-per-dollar score = curriculum hours divided by list price. Subscription prices recorded as monthly USD; specialization prices as the single billed month. Free courses (price=0) excluded from hours-per-dollar to avoid divide-by-zero.

Citation

Couey, V. W. (2026). EduBracket 2026 Online Course ROI Audit [Data set]. EduBracket. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20632758

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