Big data technology in education: Advantages, implementations, and challenges

Brohi, Sarfraz N.; Bamiah, Mervat A.; Brohi, Muhammed N.

Abstract

This study provides an in-depth review of Big Data Technology (BDT) advantages, implementations, and challenges in the education sector. BDT plays an essential role in optimizing education intelligence by facilitating institutions, management, educators, and learners improved quality of education, enhanced learning experience, predictive teaching and assessment strategy, effective decision-making and better market analysis. Moreover, BDTs are used to analyze, detect and predict learners’ behaviors, risk failures and results to improve their learning outcomes and to ensure that the academic programmers undertaken are of high-quality standards. This study identified that some universities and governments had implemented BDTs for transferring traditional education to digital smart one. Despite BDT significant offerings for education still, there are several challenges regarding its full implementation such as security, privacy, ethics, lack of skilled professionals, data processing, storage, and interoperability.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 2, 2018
• Publication Date: Jul 9, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 9, 2022
• Journal: Journal of Engineering Science and Technology
• Electronic ISSN: 1823-4690
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 7 Special Issue on ICCSIT 2018
• Pages: 229-241
• Keywords: Big data technology, Mapping review, Smart cities
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9958927
• Publisher URL: https://jestec.taylors.edu.my/Vol%2013%20issue%207%20July%202018/13_7_25.pdf
• Related Public URLs: https://jestec.taylors.edu.my/