How Can Big Data Enhance Education?

By Katie Lepi on January 24, 2014

Big Data is all around. Used in every type of industry to identify trends and possibility, data is also being used in education. Identified as one of the top trends in education, institutions are using them in all sorts of different ways. Think of it like the Google analytics for your classroom. Google analytics analyzes your website’s traffic and shows you what your best opportunities are for presenting certain ideas to certain audiences. Learning analytics can analyze your students and their work, and you can pinpoint some opportunity for personalization and optimization of your teaching and classroom. 

The handy infographic below takes a look at some ways that data mining and learning analytics can help enhance education. Keep reading to learn more.

How Can Data Mining & Analytics Enhance Education?

Data mining and learning analytics can help answer questions like:

• What sequence of questions is most effective for a specific student?
• Which student actions are associated with better grades?
• Which actions indicate satisfaction and engagement?
• Which features of an online learning environment lead to better learning?
• When are students ready to move onto the next topic?
• When is a student at risk for not completing a course?
• What grade is a student likely to achieve without intervention?
• Should a student be referred to a counselor?

There Are Cons, Though

• Expensive
• Time consuming
• Choosing which data to mine can be difficult
• Privacy concerns
• Creating a simplified picture from data can be difficult
• All data systems are not interoperable

Katie was a teacher, graduate student, and is now the lady who makes sure Edudemic is as useful as possible. She oversees the editorial process and is basically a Swiss Army Knife of solutions

Source: http://www.edudemic.com/big-data-education/

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