Typical Applications of Big Data in Education

The availability of big data sets on the different learning modes has stimulated the applications of big data technology in education. This article is to introduce relevant application examples of education data mining to show how big data in education help to solve education issues. Firstly it lists the groups of target users and participants involved in education data mining, and the objectives to use data information of each group. It then goes on to illustrate the groups and their objectives further by given examples and finally conclude how big data help to solve education issues through reaching the objective of each group. The examples show that for students big data can generate personalized activities and offer academic advising, for teachers big data can reveal students´ characteristics and predict future performance and offer assistance, for educational organizations big data can make scientific decisions.