LMS Reporting is a crucial feature of any modern online course and it shows full advantage of Big Data nowadays. But admit it, just looking at figures and metrics is of little use.
When big data in eLearning is discussed, I often reflect on the difference in the terms data and information. Data is, of course, raw recorded information...
The use of big data and analytics in education continues to grow. A vast apparatus of measurement is being developed to underpin national education systems, institutions and the actions of the individuals who occupy them. […] The presence of digital data and software in education is being amplified through massive financial and political investment in…
According to technology experts that would have increased from 130 to 40000 exabytes ten and a half years before 2020. Some research writers have estimated that…
In this learning analytics blog post, Andrew Downes dives deeper into the dimensions within the learner categories and explores how organizations report on the data about their learners.
Are you already involved in learning analytics or want to find out how the new big data era can support your teaching or research activities? Maybe you are ...
Professor Mark Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) based at Dublin City University (DCU) interviewed by LACE project's Maren Scheffel at EC-TEL conference in Toledo, Spain, September 2015
Across the globe institutions are exploring the opportunities technology affords to provide a better, more consistent, and more personalised service to their students and stakeholders.
von: Nina Wieczorek Einleitung Big Data – das große Thema der digitalen Transformation. Mit den rasanten digitalen Entwicklungen und der Informationsexplosion gehen zahlreiche Veränderungen einher. Diese Veränderungen spiegeln sich auch in unseren Bildungssystemen wieder, denn Big Data bietet auch für das Lernen enorme Potentiale. Ein Beispiel hierfür sind die beiden Entwicklungen von „Educational Data Mining“…
Learner interaction in an online educational environment (logging for example into a virtual learning management system) leaves a lot of digital traces behind.
Eliciting useful and reliable insights from educational data is part science, part art. With decades of experience in data analysis of educational technologies' performance, Macmillan Learning has developed a playbook of best practices to help you succeed in your own educational data analysis.
Using wireless-network data to determine where students spend their time on campus could help those students succeed. The idea is a little cool. It's also kind of creepy.
La analítica de aprendizaje resulta de la aplicación del big data a la formación y el desarrollo consiste en analizar los datos que deja tras de sí un estudiante en sus procesos de formación y aprendizaje y utilizar la información para mejorarlos
The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data. Cassandra's support for replicating across multiple datacenters is best-in-class, providing lower latency for your users and the peace of mind of knowing that you can survive regional outages.
Purdue University researchers have developed a new way to track the effectiveness of online learning programs, speeches and businesses, and determine if anyone really cares enough to download the material.
Guest presentation by Paul Prinsloo: SASUF Symposium: Digital Technologies, Big Data, and Cybersecurity, Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 15 May 2018
Learning data analysis can help you make important decisions about your eLearning content. But how are you going to collect this information and, most importantly, how are you going to use it properly?