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Big Data and Educational Research

Big Data and Educational Research
Roser Beneito-Montagut

Introduction

Big data and data analytics bring the promise to enhance teaching and learning, improve educational research and progress education governance.

Despite the alleged value of the increasing volume of education related large and complex datasets and a growing interest in making sense of them there is still limited research on big data and educational research and, thus, limited understanding of its value for education. Over the last decades, developments in the area of information and communication technologies (ICTs) – such as the social and semantic web or mobile technologies – are reshaping not only teaching and learning practices but also the governance of education. A huge variety of online behaviours ...

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