Scope For Big Data Analytics In Higher Education & Student- Teacher Engagements
W
ith the advancement of
success
technology over the years,
conducive to their success.
a lot of industries have
been able to streamline or improve their process thus improving efficiency & productivity. But higher education is one of the few industries that hasn’t witnessed much innovation in terms of engagement and it could partly be because of the highly unstructured data pool or the lack of proper correlation-causality studies between various
factors
affecting
the
by
fostering
conditions
In order to rethink the fundamentals of student-teacher
engagement
we
have to approach it from both ends i.e. from the teacher’s perspective and the student’s. For any teacher or instructor, his/her effectiveness in engagement can be a result of their competencies in 3 segments. They are knowledge segment,
social
segment
and
technical segment.
performance.
The knowledge segment relates to the
However, with the emergence of big
domain knowledge of the instructor
data,
analyzing
and how well he/she can relay it to the
voluminous amounts of data and
students effectively. This aspect can be
finding
has
measured
become significantly simpler. Through
academic
this article, we look at the possibilities of
teachers
applying big data analytics in higher
citations, awards & laureates.
education to enhance its engagement
The social segment relates to the
efficiency and see if it’s possible to
interpersonal abilities of the instructor.
construct a theoretical framework to
The ability to communicate efficiently is
comprehensively evaluate a student’s
one of the most important qualities of a
performance as well as predict his/her
good teacher which in theory is the
success
only quality capable of inspiring critical
students’/institute's the
possibility
trends
indicators.
using This
&
of
relationships
key
performance
knowledge
through
the
individual
achievements such
as
of
the
publications,
could
thinking in students and this aspect of
potentially help institutions maximize
an instructor can be measured by
the students’ chances of academic
cumulatively tracking their emotional
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