ABSTRACT

The information of institutions is increasing enormously in the context of students, instructors, and researches etc., Institutions of higher education deals theses information by their own approaches. There are plenty of software mechanisms are available to handle the information of educational institutions. Big data and analytics applications are needed in all activities of educational institutions in the context of instructions, information system, administration etc, already being felt and should not be ignored. This paper reviews potential help of Big Data in educational institutions, reveals the challenges that today’s educational institutions facing and this paper concludes by outlining a framework that will be useful to handle information and decision making processes by using Big Data in educational institutions.

Key words: Big data, Information system, Information technology