Failing Students need Big Data and Learning Analytics: Hype or Reality?

Ray Stoneham

Abstract


This opinion piece evaluates the promise of big data and learning analytics before they reach their peak of expectation, and prior to the trough of disillusionment, with the hope of assisting them up the slope of enlightenment to the plateau of productivity.

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Big data, learning analytics

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v7i11.221

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