Impact of Big-Data on Education System (original) (raw)

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology

The objective of any contraption is to formulate the life of a human being trouble-free and comfortable. Big data refer to mining valuable data from a bulky quantity of unstructured and structured data. Educational institutions have huge amount of data. Thus, it is crucial to boost Big data processing in educational institution. The traditional classroom environment is no longer necessary for learning. Big Data altered the way of learning by building it easy, effortless and exciting. Technology will continuously make learning easy for the convenience of students [1]. Big data in higher education comes from different sources that include blogs, social networks, student information systems, learning management systems(LMS), research, and other machine-generated data. Big data is becoming a key to creating competitive advantages in higher education. The practice of learning management systems in education has been growing in the preceding few years. Students have started using mobile phones to access online content. Student's online activities engender massive amount of data. This has resulted in the progress of Big Data technologies and tools in education to process the huge amount of data. This paper looks into the recent applications of Big Data technologies in education and presents an assessment of prose available on Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics.

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