Big Data, Analytics and Education: Challenges, Opportunities and an Example from a Large University Unit

The challenge in educational technology (EdTech) is to apply modern analytics to educational data in order to derive information. Information quality (InfoQ) has been proposed by Kenett and Shmueli as a framework for assessing the quality of information generated by empirical studies by using specific empirical methods such as regression models, analysis of variance or predictive analytics. InfoQ is determined by eight dimensions: 1) Data Resolution, 2) Data Structure, 3) Data Integration 4) Temporal Relevance, 5) Chronology of Data and Goal, 6) Generalizability, 7) Operationalization and 8) Communication.