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Publication date: 28 February 2019

Riccardo Pecori, Vincenzo Suraci and Pietro Ducange

Managing efficiently educational Big Data, produced by Virtual Learning Environments, is becoming a compelling necessity, especially for those universities providing distance…

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Purpose

Managing efficiently educational Big Data, produced by Virtual Learning Environments, is becoming a compelling necessity, especially for those universities providing distance learning. This paper aims to propose a possible framework to compute efficiently key performance indicators, summarizing the trends of students’ academic careers, by using educational Big Data.

Design/methodology/approach

The framework is designed and implemented in a distributed fashion. The parallel computation of the indicators through Map and Reduce nodes is carefully described, together with the workflow of data, from the educational sources to a NoSQL database and to the learning analytics engine.

Findings

This framework was tested at eCampus University, an Italian distance learning institution, and it was able to significantly reduce the amount of time needed to compute key performance indicators. Moreover, by implementing a proper data representation dashboard, it resulted in a useful help and support for educational decisions and performance analyses and for revealing possible criticalities.

Originality/value

The framework proposed integrates for the first time, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, a set of modules, designed and implemented in a distributed fashion, to compute key performance indicators for distance learning institutions. It can be used to analyze the dropouts and the outcomes of students and, therefore, to evaluate the performances of universities, which can, in turn, propose effective improvements toward enhancing the overall e-learning scenario.

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Information Discovery and Delivery, vol. 47 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2398-6247

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Publication date: 6 June 2019

Xu Du, Jui-Long Hung and Chih-Hsiung Tu

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Information Discovery and Delivery, vol. 47 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2398-6247

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