A Study on Learning Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities for Smart Learning

Learning is always an innovative and complex activity that involves productive interactions between people, systems, and technology. With the adverse growth of the technology in processing the enormous data, the processing of voluminous data (BigData) generated in the Learning environment is gaining more importance in the current digital world. Learning Analytics (LA) is an emerging field which analyses the variety of data collected from the interactions between the users, educational system, and technology. This paper focuses on the importance of Learning Analytics, growth in the past decade, current research trends, and its future scope in the enhancement of the teaching-learning process.