Big Data and analytics in higher educationOpportunities and challenges高等教育中的大数据与分析解析 机遇与挑战.pdf

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1、BritishJournalofEducationalTechnologyVol46No52015904–920doi:10.1111/bjet.12230BigDataandanalyticsinhighereducation:OpportunitiesandchallengesBenDanielDr.BenDanielisaSeniorLecturerinHigherEducation,andheadsanEducationalTechnologyGroup,attheUniversityofOtagoNewZealand.Hiscurrentresearchisfocu

2、sedonunderstandingthevalueofBigDataandlearninganalyticsinhighereducation.HeisalsoinvestigatingtheoriesandpraxisofteachingresearchmethodologiesforBusinessandAcademia.AbstractInstitutionsofhighereducationareoperatinginanincreasinglycomplexandcompeti-tiveenvironment.Thispaperidentifiescontempor

3、arychallengesfacinginstitutionsofhighereducationworldwideandexploresthepotentialofBigDatainaddressingthesechallenges.Thepaperthenoutlinesanumberofopportunitiesandchallengesassoci-atedwiththeimplementationofBigDatainthecontextofhighereducation.Thepaperconcludesbyoutliningfuturedirectionsrela

4、tingtothedevelopmentandimplementa-tionofaninstitutionalprojectonBigData.IntroductionInstitutionsofhighereducationareoperatinginanincreasinglycomplexandcompetitiveenvi-ronment.Theyareunderincreasingpressuretorespondtonationalandglobaleconomic,politi-calandsocialchangesuchasthegrowingneedtoin

5、creasetheproportionofstudentsincertaindisciplines,embeddingworkplacegraduateattributesandensuringthatthequalityoflearningprogrammesarebothnationallyandgloballyrelevant.Inaddition,differentstakeholdersareexpectinghighereducationinstitutionstoinatimelymannertothesedemands,albeitwithdecliningg

6、overnmentfunding,decliningsupportfrombusinessandprivatesectors,growingregulatorydemandsfortransparencyandaccountability(Hazelkorn,2007),decliningadmissionsratesduetoincreasingtuitionandupsurgeinhighschoolsdropoutandincreasingoperationalcosts(Thornton,2013).Howcaninstitutionsofhighereducatio

7、nrespondeffectivelyandintimetoglobalchangesaffectingtheirenvironment?Thedecisionsrequiredfordealingwiththeserapidchangesarecomplexandmanyaremadewithoutrecoursetovastdatasourcesthathavebeengeneratedbutarenotavailabletothoseentrustedtomakerelevantandtimely