Ben Kei Daniel Knihy

Focusing on enhancing university teaching and learning through systematic inquiry, this book offers practical advice alongside a critical examination of research methods. It not only guides educators in improving their practices but also contributes to the theoretical framework of research methodology, making it a valuable resource for those invested in educational improvement and scholarly research.

This book focuses on the uses of big data in the context of higher education. The book describes a wide range of administrative and operational data gathering processes aimed at assessing institutional performance and progress in order to predict future performance, and identifies potential issues related to academic programming, research, teaching and learning. Big data refers to data which is fundamentally too big and complex and moves too fast for the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The value of big data is the ability to identify useful data and turn it into useable information by identifying patterns and deviations from patterns.