Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Educational Institutes Using the Concept of Big Data Technology

Education system is one of the sectors that experiences changes in terms of technological innovations. Many institutions adopt the use of e-learning platforms and other web services for interactions of the students. Numerous users keep logging into these applications which resulted into supplying huge amount of data. However, despite these huge amount of data, institutions are yet to make use of most of these data. They tend to manage the data submitted by the users regarding their requests only while ignoring data related to web behavioral inputs. Therefore, this paper aimed at providing a model for enhancing teaching and learning in educational institutes using big data technology. The paper has objectives as to identify benefits of big data technology in education, to describe the applications of big data in education and finally to provide big data models for educational system. The paper uses both survey and modelling approaches, the survey makes use of review papers to outline the benefits and applications of big data into education, while the modelling approach uses unified modelling language (ITML) to provide description on small data and big data interactions in education system. The small data provide traditional feedback with emphasis on students' performance only, while the big data measures the entire learning process consisting of both students and teachers.