Emerging trends in applications of big data in educational data mining and learning analytics

In the last couple of years, the use of various applications of Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics has increased. Now a days, students have started using Internet to study. Due to the easy availability of online courses, student online activities have considerably increased which in turn has generated huge amount of data. These data gets wasted as conventional learning methods are not equipped for preparing it. Now, due to this, the Big Data technology has entered in the education field, to mine those huge chunks of datasets. This paper discusses the latest tools and technologies of Big Data in the field of Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining.