Learning Analytics and Big Data in Higher Education

Learning analytics analyses both static and dynamic data extracted from teaching learning environment to allow timely interventions by educator. It paves way for optimizing the learning and thus helps both educator and learner to achieve success. Learning analytics allows personalization of learning process .It lets the educator to cater to needs of individual learner to a greater extent. The voluminous data (termed as Big Data) available with educational institutions can help to enhance the effectiveness of teaching learning in many ways. Data driven decision making is the need of the hour .With the rapid increase in generation of digital data, the need to extract potential information effectively also arises. Big Data can prove to be an effective tool. This paper explores the area of learning analytics and big Data in higher education.