Big Data + Libraries

data education

Substitute ‘students’ for ‘users’ and can the same be done in education? As more and more learning is done online, that generates usage data and assessment data – what pupils and seen, and how far they’ve understood it. Can understanding of what a pupil has learned, what they’ve grasped and what they need to learn next enable schools to personalise the learning experience and give a classroom of 30 students thirty different lesson plans?

What is Educational Data Mining (EDM)? It is an emerging discipline, concerned with developing methods for exploring the unique types of data that come from educational settings, and using those methods to better understand students, and the...