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The Growing Role of Big Data in Education and its Implications for Educational Leadership

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  • Usama Kalim

    (Faculty of Education, Southwest University Chongqing)

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he big data technologies in education have seen a rapid rise since the past two decades. Information intelligence has become an integral part of educational decision making. This created a trend for the strategic usage of big amount of data. New technologies have been in use for analyzing the large amount of data for making strategic decisions. This study highlights the growing importance of big data by reviewing the existing literature on big data. Furthermore using interpretive methodology this study examines the implications of big data for educational leadership. Through effective decision making by using this big data enables educational institutes to improve the process of teaching and learning. The usage of big data enables effective decision making for education by incorporating different information and communication technologies. This Big data usage in education will intensify in the near future. Educational leaders need to build different learning management system to effectively utilize the big data for decision making purposes.

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  • Usama Kalim, 2021. "The Growing Role of Big Data in Education and its Implications for Educational Leadership," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(1), pages 257-262, January.
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