Big Data, a Big Thing for Higher Education

This research paper exhibits the architecture of Big Data implementation in higher education sector with several components that are responsible for providing various features and services to the stakeholders of higher education. Big Data implementation can yield enormous benefits to students, teachers and at the same time can also significantly help higher education management to plan, preempt and predict several aspects that can result in a timely availability of resources and infrastructure. This research study exhibits an architecture with appropriate components that would yield several benefits to higher education institutions if implemented in appropriate manner. The research study proposes and explains different components of the architecture and provides details about how this implementation would yield benefits for different stakeholders. The components of the architecture are thoughtfully placed and designed considering variety of requirements of different stakeholders in a higher education establishment. The architecture proposes a separate component for enhancing teaching and learning, a separate component that would be responsible for assisting and supporting academic faculty and an entirely different component providing critical inputs to administration and management of higher education establishments. This research study is a mere effort to enhance the higher education in variety of aspects and provide advanced features to different stakeholders of higher education.