Application of Big Data in Higher Education for Learning Analytics

DOI

10.2991/cetcu-17.2017.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

big data; higher education; learning analytics; teaching; learning process

Abstract

Institutions of higher education are facing contemporary challenges. And big data can be used for the higher education practice. Apart from the introduction of the relevance of big data to higher education, analytical approaches such as learning analytics is provided for the analysis and exploitation of big data in higher education. It is helpful for big data to provide insights to support student learning needs. And the potential of learning analytics for quality improvement in learning process is also discussed in detail.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhijun Pei
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AU  - Jin-qing Gu
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TI  - Application of Big Data in Higher Education for Learning Analytics
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 3rd Conference on Education and Teaching in Colleges and Universities (CETCU 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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