edX.org网站在整理了一些联盟院校对教育和学习的研究，主要关注在以下方面：
- 什么激励学生学习和坚持？
- 什么帮助学生获得知识？
- 教授复杂概念的最好方法是什么？
- 我们怎么评估学生的学习？
- 线上和线下教育哪个更好？
详细信息请看这里 https://www.edx.org/about/research-pedagogy
另外，Harvard和MIT公布了2012-2013年的edX学习数据 https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mxhx，可以下载研究。
This release is comprised of de-identified data from the first year (Academic Year 2013: Fall 2012, Spring 2013, and Summer 2013) of MITx and HarvardX courses on the edX platform along with related documentation. These data are aggregate records, and each record represents one individual’s activity in one edX course. For more information about the existing analyses of these data and the first year of HarvardX and MITx courses, please see the HarvardX and MITx working paper “HarvardX and MITx: The first year of open online courses” by Andrew Ho, Justin Reich, Sergiy Nesterko, Daniel Seaton, Tommy Mullaney, Jim Waldo, and Isaac Chuang (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2381263). The first release of this dataset is the HarvardX-MITx Person-Course Academic Year 2013 De-Identified dataset, version 2.0, created on May 14, 2014. File name: HMXPC13_DI_v1_5-14-14.csv The md5sum for this release (HMXPC13_DI_v2_5-14-14.csv) is: 2b09c674af772d45dae429045cf7acfc