It is often that every time a student receives a grade, checks a class syllabus online or swipes a campus ID card, a trail of “digital bread crumbs” is left behind. Now, what and how this all make big as “big data” is when all that data is combined, mined and analyzed along with the data of the school’s entire student population, that “big data” can reveal behaviour patterns that colleges can use to improves a student’s college experience. Some of the “big data” projects already in the line-up includes: Arizona State University, Rio Salado College, University of Texas, Austin Peay State University and Arizona State University, University of Florida. The same there are lot more to learn, understand and over the top experience how big data is changing the college experience with an infographic developed by fine folks at OnlineDegrees.org.
