Future trends and scopes of Big Data Analytics in the field of Education

Abstract

1 jaiminundavia.mca@charusat.ac.in, 2 sheenalxpatel.mca@charusat.ac.in, 3 atulpatel.mca@charusat.ac.in Abstract— Big data is one of the most popular research trends in the current time. Popularity and usability of Big Data make it most promising research area in past decade. Learning analytics using Big Data is the emerging field and most of the areas are taking use of these results and outcomes as a yield of this analytics. It becomes important to learn and understand the learning analytics and outcome of the Big Data. Increasing data and demand in versatility in results have created new challenges in almost every field. Higher education institutions are also one of them as they have to face new challenges to maintain their reputation and students' growth. Institutes have responded by adopting analytics based approach to empower organizational and educational effectiveness. Making analytics actionable in the field of IT becomes mandatory for the higher educational institutes. This paper has identified different areas of education which can take advent use of such analytics and higher education can sense their growth in terms of quantity and quality. Quality assurance is the motive of the research paper so that we can put the results of analytics actionable.