Learning Analytics: The Emergence of Big Data and Analytics into Learning, Education, And Research—An Overview

Big Data is an emerging technology which is dedicated tomanaging large amounts of data and also for complex data. Big Data is the need of hours for managing growing information in different sectors. Big Data and the procedure become common in managing different types of data of various fields as well and it is called Data Analytics. Data Analytics is important in various educational activities as well and that leads learning analytics as an important area of practice. The application of Big Data and Analytics in diverse areas developed many other fields such as Business Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Marketing Analytics, and most emerging Learning Analytics as well. The applications of Big Data and Analytics is important in normal teaching learning activities, online and virtual education and training programs, distance learning and open education systems. Further in managing educational systems, management and organization also Big Data plays an important role in the entire education, training, and research sectors. Big Data Analytics is emerging with different services and facilities to the academic institutions and community. Data Science and its growth as a field leading entire educational systems and it helps in efficient, smarter, quick, and advanced educational organization and management. This paper discussed briefly on Big Data, Data Analytics with reference to the applications to Education, Training, and Research.