Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Big Data in Higher Education

Big data and big data analytics have been used in various types of businesses and organizations. Higher education institutions (HEIs) produce and process large amounts of different types of data that satisfy big data properties. However, HEIs have not yet reaped the highest benefits out of big data due to several challenges including the lack of a comprehensive framework for using big data in higher education. In this paper, we pave the way for proposing such a framework starting with a detailed review and comparisons of the latest big data in higher education frameworks. Frameworks are compared based on specific criteria to identify the weaknesses and discover the gaps that we can overcome in the proposed framework.