Big Data in Education: Pedagogy and Research

ISBN-13: 9783030768430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Prodromou, Theodosia

Opis

This book discusses how Big Data could be implemented in educational settings and research, using empirical data and suggesting both best practices and areas in which to invest future research and development. It also explores: 1) the use of learning analytics to improve learning and teaching; 2) the opportunities and challenges of learning analytics in education.As Big Data becomes a common part of the fabric of our world, education and research are challenged to use this data to improve educational and research systems, and also are tasked with teaching coming generations to deal with Big Data both effectively and ethically.The Big Data era is changing the data landscape for statistical analysis, the ways in which data is captured and presented, and the necessary level of statistical literacy to analyse and interpret data for future decision making. The advent of Big Data accentuates the need to enable citizens to develop statistical skills, thinking and reasoning needed for representing, integrating and exploring complex information.
This book offers guidance to researchers who are seeking suitable topics to explore. It presents research into the skills needed by data practitioners (data analysts, data managers, statisticians, and data consumers, academics), and provides insights into the statistical skills, thinking and reasoning needed by educators and researchers in the future to work with Big Data. This book serves as a concise reference for policymakers, who must make critical decisions regarding funding and applications.  

Spis treści

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

 

6 Enhancing learning outcomes with ‘big data’ from pedagogy for conceptual thinking with meaning equivalence reusable learning objects (MERLO) and interactive concept discovery (INCOD)

          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, Małgorzata 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

O autorze

Dr Theodosia Prodromou is a senior lecturer of Mathematics Education at the University of New England in Australia. She has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and edited/authored books on a wide range of subjects, including the use of big data in educational settings, the relationship between technology and mathematical thinking, the integration of digital technologies in the teaching and learning of mathematics, STEM education, augmented reality in Educational settings, professional development of mathematics teachers, and statistical thinking including perceptions of probability and chance.Her most recent edited/authored books were, Augmented reality in educational settings (2020) and Primary and Middle Years Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally (2019).