A Review of Big Data’s Role on Higher Education

Big Data is the term used to describe the enormous amount of information produced due to technological advancements and users’ ongoing actions and interactions in digital environments. In recent times, this phenomenon has grown in prominence. As a result, analysis of this vast amount of data has started to enhance the teaching-learning process. Big Data has a huge potential in higher education institutions for monitoring, understanding, and evaluating educational processes and guiding efforts to increase educational efficacy and actualize highly effective learning and teaching. Moreover, it invigorates new research concepts and techniques and employs state-of-the-art tools and methods for collecting and examining data, ultimately becoming a widely accepted part of the research field. This research paper focuses on the role of big data in higher education and its applications to highlight how big data techniques can foster and boost the learning process.