Big Data in Education: Pedagogy and Research

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1

Theoretical and ethical concerns

1 Big Data in academic research-Challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities

          Jacques Raubenheimer

 Part 2

Teaching people to use Big Data effectively

2 Big Data for Early Learners

          Peter Howley, Kevin Wang, Ayse Aysin Bilgin

3 Using Big Data in a Master of Applied Statistics unit

          Ayse Aysin Bilgin, Peter Howley

4 Statistical education as part of the digital transformation of statistical offices   

          Markus Zwick, Sabine Köhler

Part 3

Using Big Data to improve teaching

5 Big data, analytics and education: Challenges, opportunities and an example from a large university unit

          Ron S. Kenett, Theodosia Prodromou

          Masha Etkind, Theodosia Prodromou, Uri Shafrir

7 Employing Authentic Analytics for More Authentic Tasks

          William Billingsley, Peter Fletcher

8 Learning from Learning Analytics: How much do we know about patterns of student engagement?

          Belinda A. Chiera, Malgorzata W. Korolkiewicz, Lisa J. Schultz

Part 4

Educational systems that use Big Data

9 Museum Big Data: Perceptions and practices

          Georgios Papaioannou

10 Analysing aspects of Brazilian curricula for teaching statistics involving Big Data

          Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Monteiro, Maria Niedja Pereira Martins, Theodosia Prodromou

Part 5

11 Concluding Comments

          Theodosia Prodromou