Big Data and Learning Analytics in Higher Education: Current Theory and Practice

Big Data and Learning Analytics in Higher Education: Current Theory and Practice
ISBN-10
3319065203
ISBN-13
9783319065205
Category
Education
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2016-08-27
Publisher
Springer
Author
Ben Kei Daniel

Description

​This book focuses on the uses of big data in the context of higher education. The book describes a wide range of administrative and operational data gathering processes aimed at assessing institutional performance and progress in order to predict future performance, and identifies potential issues related to academic programming, research, teaching and learning​. Big data refers to data which is fundamentally too big and complex and moves too fast for the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The value of big data is the ability to identify useful data and turn it into useable information by identifying patterns and deviations from patterns​.

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